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The Troupers

Richard Scarsbrook

Under their famous-child-actor-turned-director father's overbearing and narcissistic eye, the Trouper quintuplets are raised on a strict diet of Golden Age entertainment and homeschooling to mold them into the best actors of their generation. But through a series of hilarious and tragic events, the siblings begin to develop their own personalities and ambitions, rebelling against their father's aspirations for them. The tension rising from the quintuplets' newfound individualism sparks an onstage brawl during a performance on their 18th birthday that changes the trajectories of each of their lives. Twenty years later, the quintuplets reunite for the reading of their father's will and one last performance.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cormorant Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 15th, 2022
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.52lb
  • EAN: 9781770866300
  • Categories: Humorous - GeneralFamily Life - GeneralComing of Age

About the Author

Scarsbrook, Richard: -

Richard Scarsbrook is an award-winning author and screenwriter whose short stories and poems have been widely published in literary journals, magazines and anthologies. Royal Blood, the first of Scarsbrook's screenplays to be produced, won Best Short Film at the TIFF-associated Milton Film Festival in 2019, and his last novel, Rockets Versus Gravity, was a National Post bestseller. Richard currently teaches courses in creative writing at the Humber School for Writers and George Brown College. He lives in Toronto.

Praise for this book

"Humour set against a backdrop of sadness is the best way to describe the atmosphere of this story, but the constant presence of all five siblings ... ensures there is always someone to rely on, or commiserate with... I could have read another 100 pages about these Troupers."-- "I've Read This Blog"