Research Catalog
Small talk
- Title
- Small talk / by Carole Fréchette ; translated by John Murrell.
- Author
- Fréchette, Carole, 1949-
- Publication
- Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-364 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Murrell, John
- Description
- xiv, 100 pages : portraits; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Everyday conversation has always been a challenge for Julie, a lonely and anxious researcher who spends her days bent over a microscope in a basement laboratory. She struggles through lunchtime discussions with co-workers and one-sided exchanges with her withdrawn father and mute stepmother, attempts to understand her aphasic mother, and feels steamrolled in conversations with her game-show host brother and his extravagant wife. At the end of each day, she goes home exhausted and indulges in soliloquies in which she lets go of everything unsaid. She tries self-help videos and a conversation workshop, but nothing can budge her verbal roadblocks. After being humiliated by her brother on live TV, she runs away from her city, her family, her job, and her life. Wandering in the woods, she meets Timothy, who is trying to end his life. Between someone who wants to leave the world and someone who would like to be a part of it, a meaningful conversation begins to take shape."--
- Uniform Title
- Small talk. English
- Alternative Title
- Small talk.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Drama.
- Note
- A play.
- Translation of: Small talk.
- "First edition: September 2018"--Colophon.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-364
- ISBN
- 9781770919495
- 177091949X
- OCLC
- 1060597863
- Author
- Fréchette, Carole, 1949- author.
- Title
- Small talk / by Carole Fréchette ; translated by John Murrell.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Murrell, John, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-364