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freehand books fall 2011 acquiring editor Robyn Read rread @ broadviewpress.com managing editor Sarah Ivany sivany @ broadviewpress.com Freehand Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program. Freehand Books, an imprint of Broadview Press, acknowledges the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut DesignTRANSCRIPT
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for its publishing program.
Freehand Books, an imprint of Broadview
Press, acknowledges the financial support for
its publishing program from the Government
of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.
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The story begins with a promise of drama, and from
there, the story’s pacing is clipped and clean. Each page
is filled with unusual detail and descriptions. . . . A gripping story
told by a talented writer.
MICHAEL WINTER Judge’s comments on “Hold Me Now,”
winner, Prairie Fire Fiction Contest (30.2)
Hold Me Nowa novel by stephen gauer
One Friday, Vancouver lawyer Paul Brenner has dinner with his son,
Daniel. They talk about work, health, money, and music, and part
ways. The following evening, Paul receives the phone call that is every
parent’s worst nightmare: Daniel has been killed in Stanley Park.
Hold Me Now is an unflinching portrayal of a father’s grief, as Paul
learns how very different the new world — a world without his son
— will be for him. The investigation of Daniel’s murder, the trial,
and the sentencing of the killer test Paul’s faith in the legal system.
As both the media and public protest the overt role homophobia
played in Daniel’s death, Paul struggles to cope, and begins to form
reckless and dangerous habits. But with the love of two people in his
life who sustain him — his mother, Jean, and his daughter, Elizabeth
— he begins to comprehend an incomprehensible tragedy, and
forgive an unforgiveable crime.
Stephen Gauer holds a BA in Communications
from Simon Fraser University (2001) and a MFA
in Creative Writing from the University of British
Columbia (2005). Stephen s prize-winning short
stories have been published in Descant, Prairie
Fire, the Toronto Star, and Best Canadian Stories
10 (Oberon Press). He’s also written for Geist
magazine and the Globe and Mail. His essay
“Giving away the body” will appear in Body Parts,
to be published by Brindle & Glass in 2012. Hold
Me Now is Stephen’s first novel.
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Esmé Claire Keith was born in Toronto in 1964.
Her librarian mother supervised weekly library
visits while her father read exclusively from J.B.
Priestley’s list of great novels. Her older sister
began to study Latin at the age of ten. A natural
contrarian, Esmé gave herself to Mad magazine,
Star Trek (the original series), and the holy trinity
of glam, disco, and punk. At university she finally
investigated the canon and she saw that it was
good. She has divided her attention ever since
between high culture and pop. She currently lives
in Winnipeg, where she has good access to both.isbn
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I loved everything about this exquisitely droll social satire. It’s well-crafted, smart, fun, and the
characters Rutledge and Raoul are wonderfully original.
ELYSE FRIEDMAN
Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a Cruise on
the Mariola. This Cruise is not just any cruise. It’s the whole shebang.
It’s around the world. It’s a lifestyle change: G & Ts and tuxedos and
cigars and cognac galore. The service is top-rate. And Rutledge’s
steward, Raoul, is a good kid.
But then a day trip to a Caribbean port ends in commotion. Some
people don’t make it back onto the ship. Rutledge, nonplussed, makes
use of the vacant machines in the gym and the unoccupied loungers
on deck. But soon, crew members seem few and far between, and the
menu in the Captain’s Mess is significantly diminished. Rutledge gets
the feeling that something is amiss. And that’s just unacceptable.
Welcome aboard Esme Keith’s debut dystopic novel, a cunning
parody of modern-day luxury and the coveted “all-inclusive” vacation
from the refreshingly blunt point of view of a man unable to see
beyond his own needs.
Not Being on a Boat a novel by esmé cl aire keith
OCT 2011
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The real treats in Darwin’s Bastards come from some less familiar names.
Stories by Buffy Cram, Oliver Kell-hammer, and David Whitton stand
out as entertaining and provocative speculations on class, the environment,
and corporate imperialism.
THE TORONTO STARDavid Whitton’s “Twilight of the Gods,”
originally published in Darwin’s Bastards,
appears in The Reverse Cowgirl
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The Reverse Cowgirlshort stories by david whit ton
Keen, intense, and darkly comic, the short stories of David Whitton
are full of misfits, oddballs, dropouts, klutzes, and loners. You might
dress em up, but it’s just a matter of moments till they unravel back
into their fallen, and fascinating, selves. Their mistakes and misdeeds,
temptations and transgressions thread their way through these
stories, stirring up surprises on every corner.
Whitton navigates current life and future worlds, dirty truths and
murky fantasies, continually setting up, if only to send up, modern
romantic scenarios. In the end, if the boy does get the girl, or vice
versa — whether it’s online or on acid, at a wedding or in battle —
the object of ardour might be in for a rough ride. Maybe they’ll stay
afloat — tremulous and tentative — or plunge to earth in delightful
and refreshing ways.
Not Being on a Boat a novel by esmé cl aire keith
OCT 2011
David
Whitton
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in Toronto.
fiction
“A touching and atmospheric story.”
Susan Swan
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and me among them
Kristen den Hartoga descrip tion of the
bl a zing world
Michael Murphy
“Funny, stirring, tender, smart, and smartass,
Michael Murphy’s fiction is ablaze with fiery insights.”
Nicole Markotic
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“As the rate of Alzheimer’s continues to increase
as the population ages, Tangles joins Jeffrey Moore’s
novel The Memory Artists and Sarah Polley’s film
Away from Her at the head of a list of illuminating
and much-needed artistic responses.”
The Montreal Gazette
“There’s hope in the art of Olivier, whose line drawings
evoke the work of R.O. Blechman. Though much of the
work — some old, some produced for the book — is
bleak, he infuses a remarkable amount of humour and
joy into his drawings.”
Mark Medley, The National Post
“The book’s greatest strength is its profound ability to
humanize a frequently misunderstood condition, and
to highlight mental illness as the ‘orphan child’ of the
health care community.”
Quill & Quire
Finalist for the Hubert Evans
Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book
Prizes)
Finalist for the Writers’ Trust
Non-Fiction Prize
Included in The Globe and
Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2010
Winner of a CBC Bookie for
Best Comic or Graphic Novel
nonfiction
Finalist for the Wilfred
Eggleston Award for
Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the
2011 Alberta Readers’
Choice Award
isbn 978-1-55111-928-1 $23.95 cdn
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bit ter medicine:
A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness
Clem Martini and Olivier Martinitangles A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me
Sarah Leavitt
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here is where we disembark
Clea RobertsharmonicsJesse Patrick Ferguson
“It’s exciting to see such cohesiveness and range
in a first collection. With haiku-spare density,
Roberts’ intricate lyrics accumulate into grand
gestures of longing.”
Winnipeg Free Press
“Roberts belongs to a Canadian pastoral tradition
wherein nature, while awesome in its majesty
(and deserving of poetic exaltation), has teeth
to be reckoned with.”
Quill & Quire
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“Ferguson is an energized, clear-eared poet
with ground to cover. Swooning the messy,
ironic, dark and hopeful details of life, Ferguson
composes the ballads of fathers, lovers, poets,
sons, students and environmentalists.”
Winnipeg Free Press
Longlisted for the 2011 Alberta
Readers’ Choice Award
Finalist for the Gerald Lampert
Memorial Award
Shortlisted for the 2009
CAA-Book Television Emerging
Author Award
Shortlisted for the 2010 Bookland
Emerging Author Award
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Fiction978-1-55481-054-3 And Me Among Them Kristen den Hartog [2011] 21.95
978-1-55481-016-1 Blue Sunflower Startle Yasmin Ladha [2010] 21.95 21.95 29.95
978-1-55111-879-6 Buying Cigarettes for the Dog Stuart Ross [2009] 19.95 19.95 29.95
978-1-55111-730-0 Description of the Blazing World, A Michael Murphy [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95
978-1-55111-978-6 Doctrine of Affections, The Paul Headrick [2010] 23.95 23.95 29.95
978-1-55111-999-1 Good to a Fault Marina Endicott [2009] 19.95
978-1-55481-021-5 Hold Me Now Stephen Gauer [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95
978-1-55111-927-4 Mother Superior Saleema Nawaz [2008] 23.95 23.95 29.95
978-1-55111-995-3 Not Anyone’s Anything Ian Williams [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95
978-1-55481-060-4 Not Being on a Boat Esmé Claire Keith [2011] 21.95 21.95 29.95
978-1-55111-932-8 Open Arms Marina Endicott [2009] 23.95
978-1-55111-925-0 postcard and other stories Anik See [2009] 23.95 23.95 29.95
978-1-55481-062-8 Reverse Cowgirl, The David Whitton [2011] 21.95
Nonfiction978-1-55 111-928-1 Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir
of Mental IllnessClem Martini and Olivier Martini
[2010] 23.95
978-1-55111-930-4 Pathologies: A Life in Essays Susan Olding [2008] 23.95 23.95 29.95
978 -1 - 5 5 1 1 1 -1 1 7-9 Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me
Sarah Leavitt [2010] 23.95
Poetry978-1-55111-960 -1 Harmonics Jesse Ferguson [2009] 16.95 16.95 20.95
978-1-55 111-85 1-2 Here Is Where We Disembark Clea Roberts [2010] 16.95 16.95 20.95
978-1-55111-926-7 It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems
Jeanette Lynes [2008] 16.95 16.95 20.95
978-1-55111-961-8 subUrban Legends Joan Crate [2009] 16.95 16.95 20.95
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And Me Among ThemA novel by kristen den hartog
Ruth grew too fast.
As a young girl over seven feet tall, she looms over adults and has
a unique bird’s-eye perspective. She does not just remember but
watches her past play out: her ongoing struggle to conceal the
physical and mental symptoms that accompany her rapid growth,
to connect with other children, and to appease her concerned
parents, Elspeth, an English seamstress who lost her family to the
war, and James, a mailman rethinking his constant compliance to
his wife’s decisions. Not knowing what to do about Ruth, Elspeth
and James turn inward, away from one another, and as their marriage
falters, Ruth finds herself increasingly drawn to the dangerous girl,
Suzy, next door.
Ruth is not precocious, nor a prodigy, but she has extraordinary
vision, and, despite what her uncommon exterior might suggest,
she is exceedingly sensitive to the world below her. Possessing an
uncanny ability to intuit the emotional secrets of her family’s past.
Glorious. . . . A heartening study of people who play the hand life
has dealt them with surprising good humour and not a little cunning. . . .
A novel of considerable delicacy.
— National Post
Kristen den Hartog is the author of the novels
Water Wings, The Perpetual Ending, and
Origin of Haloes. Her most recent book, The
Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-
torn Holland, was written with her sister, Tracy
Kasaboski, and explores the life of their father’s
family during the Second World War. Kristen
lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
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