Books

Dr. Tin by Tom Walmsley (re-published as Shades)

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Shades

Shades

Price: $12.95
ISBN: 0-88978-254-7
Pulp Press

About the Book

The original winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest. A mass murderer, a musician, a dominatrix, and a private eye gather around a game of Snakes and Ladders on New Year’s Day. Lenore is waiting to murder, A.J. is waiting to die, Roxanne waits to usher in the end of the world. And all McGraw wants for Christmas is Doctor Tin. Some of them will die. Some of them have died before.

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Accordion Lessons by Ray Serwylo

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Accordion Lessons

Accordion Lessons

Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-122-2
Pulp Press, 1982

About the Book

The winner of the 4th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest and its second published novel is sad, funny, eloquent and both full of tenderness for things lost and enthusiastic about what can be found.

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Still by b.p. nichol

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Still

Still

ISBN: 0-88978-146-X
Pulp Press, 1983
Out of print. Find a used copy

About the Book

A haunting novel from one of Canada’s most distinguished avant-garde poets. A work of profound emotional depth, subtlety, and intensity.

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This Guest of Summer by Jeff Doran

Monday, February 16th, 2009
This Guest of Summer

This Guest of Summer

Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-151-6
Pulp Press, 1984
Out of print. Find a used copy

About the Book

He’s a high-tech millionaire-in-progress, she’s a ballerina. Their love is as fragile as his ambitions and her bones.

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Nothing So Natural by Jim Curry

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Nothing So Natural

Nothing So Natural

Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-167-2
Pulp Press, 1985

About the Book

A 12-year-old boy longs for ordinary existence amid extraordinary circumstances. The winner of the 8th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest reads like The World According to Garp written from the other side of the tracks.

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Momentum by Marc Diamond

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Momentum

Momentum

Price: $8.95
ISBN: 0-88978-179-6
Pulp Press, 1986

About the Book

In a west coast city preparing itself for a world exposition, a man named Still is on the move. Downwardly mobile, having lost his government job, Still plummets through a matrix of a society frenzied with hope and disappointment. Meanwhile, “The Thing” begins to take shape on the waterfront, bombarding the city with fireworks and hoopla, forcing the lost ones further and further away.

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