White Biting Dog

Judith Thompson

Playwrights Canada, 1985 - Drama - 108 pages

A suicidal young man is rescued by a white dog who gives him a mission: save his father from death. His mission flounders until the dog's owner helps him by bringing his reluctant mother back into the family.

Winner of the 1984 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.

About the author

Judith Thompson is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award forWhite Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada and in 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Palace of the End. Judith is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and lives with her husband and five children in Toronto.

Bibliographic information

• Title: White Biting Dog
• Author: Judith Thompson
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada, 1985
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Apr 13, 2007
• ISBN: 0887543693, 9780887543692
• Length: 108 pages
• Subjects: Drama / Canadian; Drama / General