Deluded Your Sailors FICTION / Political Lovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart is

Lovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart is a comedy

the variety of experience against the backdrop of Newfoundland and Labrador provides food for thought—and celebration of diversity

creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor

the nature of language and identity

winds up first as object of depraved pleasure

Deluded Your Sailors FICTION / Political Lovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart isIn Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discovery of crucial documents threatens a government funded tourism project, and the politely menacing, shape shifting Reverend Elias Winslow. And in parallel storytelling: an early eighteenth century girl, daughter of a nameless prostitute, winds up first as