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onl7ignRsr 17 yea of his life in sh+dirs. NJ.. Dan Hannah didn’t know anyank outside hts family who cared about witing. His high school in Moncton had no place for inquirtni minds. and the 1.~4

&J ~~;~~~;~;~.?~ Brunswick poet Elizabeth &vs~cr has said. thar “People UC made of plsce~.” then Don Hannah may have been born inthe w~~ngplace- muchlike Alex. the transsexual in Hannah’s play The Wedding Scripr. who bridles II rhe hackneyed dscription of her dilemma - “YOU were a wyomar~ trapped inside a man’s body” - while recognizing itr basic truth. Like R&x. Hannah rook a

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surprkingly, vhc” ,bc play was ~formed in workshop a, BanN. Ibe acmrz r&xlkd agahu i:. On Ihe o,her band. the dEdiad”a of the TO,u”,O ECII 1” dx scrip, in ,hc premihc pna- d”cdoD was palpable. Wba, rhe Ear, Coan might think of iI may&k known: tecauv ol a “liberal WC of the F-wmd: m o&critic primly p”, i,. Rubber Dolly has lirllc chana of b&w uaformed nnwrhm in Don Ham,“h’s hanc luri,“~. -.

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&wdix. her nalTalive $a& malior lhe satkfaaioar of n novel. Iwing a dmmuk smmne and mmpka. evolving cbalaam.

Ha portrait of Henry Milla ir fasci.

Penguin. 2% pages. S24.65 clolh llG3S 0 670 81056 81.

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wldch vaz culled tram imewiews and ptiourly ropseuel ma - vi0 bring tbc stow of the camp back into tb spotlight and corm? some of Ike miscoxepticms sunoanding bs briet but imponam aiswnc.c. And while the secrecy that still sunouncb iu operations may preven* his book from being the “dciimdvc story” it claims to be. il is nmnhcless a com- peting mle. and OM dml d- alten- tion. - #AIRY MOR.Qx

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papc; IJSBN 0 88882 087 91.

HEI~R~EISE DEMULLES (1860.1946) WYPI the eldest da&w of an inllomtiabaod w&by Sr Hykioth4 Que.. funily. She began this diary at the rgc of 14. when sbe was in the throes of adokscenl love ior Maurice Saint-Jacqoes. Her step moths. with whom she was compk~ely out of sympathy. resololcly curbed the romance. until. when Harinw was abnost 23% she gaye the courtship her b&b,& &mid &static wedding prwZ.rP- tioos, tb+ diary cods.

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IX Bed fhndb,Slo~. alkcd by David H&i9 and Sandra Martin. Oberon Press. 215 paw. S23.95 dab (ISBN 0 987SO 638 0) ?ad,Sl2.95 paper (ISEN 0 BltyXl639 4.

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