Age of Arousal - Softcover

Griffiths, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552451909 ISBN 13: 9781552451908

Publisher: Coach House Books, 2004

Synopsis

It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her young lover, Miss Rhoda Nunn. But when the Misses Madden spinsters Virginia and Alice and beautiful young Monica arrive, along with the attractive Dr. Everard Barfoot, things can never be the same.

Age of Arousal is a lavish, sexy, frenetic ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self genre-busting, rule-bending, and ambitiously original.

About this title

About the Author:

Playwright/actor Linda Griffiths is the winner of five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Gemini award, two Chalmer’s awards, the Quizanne International Festival Award and Los Angeles’s A.G.A. Award for her title performance in the John Sayles film Lianna. Her twelve plays include Chronic, Alien Creature, The Duchess: a.k.a Wallis Simpson, and Maggie & Pierre.

Review:

"Griffiths is one of Canada's 'originals' known not only for the quality of

her work, but for the sheer range of her career.  --Maclean’s Magazine

 

"Absolutely brilliant . . . "  --Toronto Star

About this edition

• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1552451909
• ISBN 13: 9781552451908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200