Canadian novelist and playwright George Ryga combines the experiences of his journey with his impressions of Chinese society and his subsequent reevaluation of Western values.

Beyond the crimson morning: Reflections from a journey through contemporary China

Ryga, George

DOUBLEDAY

The ecstasy of Rita Joe and other plays

New Press

The plays Paracelsus and Prometheus Bound engage readers on and pon boht an epic and a personal scale.

Two Plays

Turnstone Press

Portrait of Angelica: A Letter to My Son

Turnstone Pr

Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men’s violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama of enormous theatrical power, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe had a major influence in awakening consciousness to the Indian problem” both in whites and Natives themselves. Cast of five women and 15 men. With a preface by Chief Dan George. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe premiered November 23, 1967 at the Vancouver Playhouse.

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Talonbooks

A novel of a young man revisiting the stony landscape of the Alberta foothills where he grew up.

Hungry hills: A novel

Literary

A gritty, realistic novel about Prairie dirt farmers in the 1940s and early 1950s.Other books by George Ryga available from Talonbooks:The Athabasca Ryga (1990) The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1970) Hungry Hills (1974) In the Shadow of a Vulture (1985) Night Desk (1976) Ploughmen of the Glacier (1977) Summerland (1992) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------b004 0-88922-110-3; 9.95 Canada / 5.95 U.S.A.© 1976; 144 pp; Pocketbook format--------------------------------------------------------------------------------""A moving story, told by an author whose concern for others is no mere affectation.""óGlobe & Mail--------------------------------------------------------------------------------To order Talonbod104

Ballad of a Stonepicker

Seven Hours to Sundown

Talonbooks, Ltd.

A novel of a young man revisiting the stony landscape of the Alberta foothills where he grew up.Other books by George Ryga available from Talonbooks:The Athabasca Ryga (1990) Ballad of a Stonepicker (1976) The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1970) In the Shadow of a Vulture (1985) Night Desk (1976) Ploughmen of the Glacier (1977) Summerland (1992) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------b004 0-88922-134-0; 9.95 Canada / 5.95 U.S.A.© 1974; 168 pp; Pocketbook format; 2nd printing--------------------------------------------------------------------------------""A stimulating truthful and extremely readable work of fiction from a major Canadian writer.""óGeorgia StraightFilm option sold.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------To order Talonbod104

Hungry Hills

The Athabasca Ryga presents essays, short stories, plays, and selections from a novel that George Ryga wrote in Athabasca and in Edmonton before his move to British Columbia in the early 1960s. Very little of this work has ever been published before. Almost all these early writings evoke and portray the sights, sounds and people of Deep Creek, Athabasca, and Edmonton. They reveal to us Ryga’s ethnic roots, his childhood as a farm boy, his struggle to learn in a one-room school, his desperate search for off-farm employment in meat-packing plants and lumber camps, and his flight to an alien, hostile city where he became both a class-conscious wage-labourer and a visionary poet. Among the manuscripts included in The Athabasca Ryga are two early television dramas (Storm,’ and Village Crossroad,”), excerpts from the unpublished autobiographical novel, The Bridge (1960), and a set of five short stories collectively titled Poor People.” The Athabasca Ryga also reprints two essays from Ryga’s later years  Notes from a Silent Boyhood,” and Essay on A Letter to My Son  both reflections on what it was like growing up as an intelligent, creative but lonely youth with a love for literature in an isolated and poverty-stricken Ukrainian farming community.

The Athabasca Ryga

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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