ISBN:
9780889221963
Pages: 104 pp
Pub. Date:
January 1 1982
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.25"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Fiction / FIC014040
- DRAMA / Canadian
- HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
- HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space
- FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I
Billy Bishop Goes to War ranks as one of Canada’s most successful and endearing musical dramas in history. The Governor General’s Award-winning musical documents the glorious World War I exploits of Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop.
John Gray
John Gray is the author of a novel, many magazine articles, and several stage musicals, a book on tattoos, Lost in North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream (1994), Local Boy Makes Good (1987) and the internationally acclaimed Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982) with Eric Peterson. He has contributed sixty-five satirical pieces for The Journal on CBC Television, and is a frequent speaker on cultural issues. Among his many awards are the Governor General’s Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award and the National Magazine Award.
