New books from BPAA member publishers!
Spring 2009
From Freehand Books
Buying Cigarette for the Dog
By Stuart Ross
ISBN: 978-1-55111-879-6
PB $19.95The first book of fiction since 1997 from the consummately underground Stuart Ross holds a mirror to the absurdities of 21st-century Earth. A woman sunning by a pool finds herself covered in chicken feet; a man hires a bodyguard to protect him from his poodle. Disciplined in his experimentation, Ross creates an absurdism so true that it becomes real.
Open Arms
By Marina Endicott
ISBN: 978-1-55111-932-8
PB $23.95
Finalist, 2001 Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award
In bestselling author Marina Endicott’s debut novel, seventeen-year-old Bessie Smith Connolly navigates grief and betrayal as she traverses the country. Bittersweet and deeply affecting, this novel charts Bessie’s course as she makes her way through her exploded family and out into the world.
subUrban Legends
By Joan Crate ISBN: 978-1-55111-961-8
Price: $16.95Celebrated Alberta poet Joan Crate weaves a sequence of poetic revisions and reveries, cleverly colliding suburban routine with subconscious fantasy. In her characteristically intelligent verse, these legends consider what lies beyond youth and the trite promise of “happily ever after.”
