num_pages: 96
description: The Shawl— which opened to critical and popular acclaim in April 1985— is about a smalltime mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance. In Prairie du Chien a railroad car speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide punctuated by the camaraderie of a friendly card game exploding into a moment of menace.
language: English
title: The Shawl & Prairie du Chien
titlecomplete: The Shawl & Prairie du Chien
genres: American, Drama, Plays
ratings_count: 80
publisher: Grove Press