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100 1 $aStratton, Allan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78090914
245 14 $aThe phoenix lottery :$ba play /$cby Allan Stratton ; [with an introduction by Christopher Newton].
250 $a1st ed., March 2001.
260 $aToronto :$bPlaywrights Canada Press,$c2001.
300 $axi, 91 pages :$billustrations, portrait ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aBased on the author's novel of the same title.
520 1 $a"Edgar Beamish dies, leaving his corporate empire to his estranged son, Junior, who launches a charitable foundation with company assets. Disaster ensues; bankruptcy appears certain." "But Junior has a fundraising inspiration, The Phoenix Lottery. It offers its winner instant fame and fortune: the chance to torch a prized van Gogh at a live event, and to sell the story to TV, tabloids and Hollywood.".
520 8 $a"Junior has an ally in performance artist Lydia Spark. But powerful enemies include the slippery Vatican envoy Cardinal Wichita, the ghost of Junior's father - and the spirit of van Gogh himself." "An exploration of art, commerce, and untidy family relationships, The Phoenix Lottery is a grand comedy told with outrageous wit, and a keen eye for the masks with which society maintains the fiction of a moral world."--BOOK JACKET.
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