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category: Drama
published: Mar 1991
ISBN:9780887849077
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc

Of the Fields, Lately

by David French

tagged: canadian
Description

A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death.

Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973.

About the Author
David French was one of Canada's best-known and critically acclaimed playwrights. He was one of the first inductees into the Newfoundland Arts Hall of Honour, and was an Officer of the Order of Canada. David French died in 2010.

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