Eating Habits Of The Chronically Lonesome will leave you struck, yet, exhilarated. The exploration of starvation and consumption is at the core of each character; what does our hunger reveal about the state of our soft hearts? Ellen jumps rope on rooftops in the searing Korean sun. She has sworn off carbohydrates until she can find pants that fit. Damon resents his two dollar chow mein bought on a Montreal curb. There are half-eaten poutines on living room floors and greasy corn kernels stuck to chins. There are weak cocktails, cheap coffees, white plastic forks, and cigarettes. Everywhere.
These interwoven stories are propulsive. They pull back the blast shield to reveal blinding interior voices; unrepentant and raw. Coles’ irreverent characters scorch, and strangely comfort us, as they struggle to process the permeable nature of their thoughts. Such are the sardonically complex and humourous Eating Habits Of The Chronically Lonesome.
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Megan Gail Coles is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the National Theatre School of Canada. She is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Poverty Cove Theatre Company. Megan is currently working on a trilogy of plays examining resource exploitation in Newfoundland and Labrador titled The Driftwood Trilogy: Falling Trees, Building Houses and Wasting Paper. She is a member of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, Playwrights' Guild of Canada, Playwrights' Atlantic Resource Centre (NL Rep) and Playwrights' Workshop Montreal. Her completed plays include Our Eliza (Playwrights' Canada Press & Breakwater Books), The Battery and Bound. Megan is originally from Savage Cove on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. She currently resides in St. John's where she works at Breakwater Books Ltd. Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome is Megan's first fiction publication.
BMO Winterset Award-2014-CA
John and Margaret Savage First Book Award-2015-CA
ISBN: 9781771030526 , 9781771030762
Item Publish Date: 2014 / 10 / 01
Measurements: 5.5 in X 8.5 in X 0 in
Weight: 0.35 kg
Page Count: 180