Books
A Circle of Birds by Hayden Trenholm
Monday, February 16th, 2009
A Circle of Birds
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 1-895636-03-5
Anvil Press, 1992
About the Book
“It’s difficult to hold on to the present when your mind is peeling away like the layers of an onion.” A man suffering from aminesis — the death of memory — tells the story of his mind-melting descent into mental illness.
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Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms by Steve Lundin and Mitch Perry
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Stolen Voices / Vacant Rooms
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-06-X
Anvil Press, 1994
About the Book
The first and only shared prize of publication, the co-winners of the 16th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest form two books in one. One side offers a nightmarish vision of a land in decline, the other, a finely crafted piece of prose, rich in mood and evocative in its language.
Stolen Voices tells the story of Tod Coll, a painter grappling with the age old struggle of art versus commodity. Steve Lundin’s novel is visionary and hallucinatory; bitter and vitriolic; written in a style that brings to mind the writings of Celine.
Evocative in its language, Mitch Parry’s Vacant Rooms is the tale of a family history and the effects of the past on the present. The novel sifts through one family’s collective memory in an attempt to understand their sense of dissolving ties and personal loss.
Body Speaking Words by Loree Harrell
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Body Speaking Words
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 1-895636-09-4
Anvil Press, 1995
About the Book
A novel about—what else—writing a novel in the space of three days, offers insights into family, friendship, growing up female. Body Speaking Words is a poignant, funny and sexy account of one woman’s attempt to understand what drives us to document the essential stories of our lives.
Tacones by Todd Klinck
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Tacones
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-14-0
Anvil Press, 1996, 2008
About the Book
This rollicking expose of the violent and ambivalent nature of the Toronto “after-hours” scene and its inhabitants became an instant underground hit. First published as the winner of the 19th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, it has now been re-released by Anvil Press as a special 10th anniversary edition.
The Underwood by P.G. Tarr
Monday, February 16th, 2009
The Underwood
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-17-5
Anvil Press, 1998
About the Book
Holden Caufield meets Barton Fink. A hotel with a past, a place that has failed to maintain the pace of present day life and now languishes in disrepair … Enter Foster Lutz, a twenty-one-year-old pianist who lands the job of lounge entertainer in this once elegant establishment and The Underwood—including the lives of its inhabitants — is set for a spell of splendour and rejuvenation.
Ruby Ruby by Bradley Harris
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Ruby Ruby
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 1-895636-23-X
Anvil Press, 1999
About the Book
Ruby Ruby is a soft-boiled murder mystery that follows the trail of an expatriate Canuck as he tries to sleuth out the answers to a puzzling series of pointless and apparently motiveless murders: Who’d want to kill a sixtyish night watchman guarding an abandoned pie factory?
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