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freehand books spring 2011 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. Acquiring Editor: Robyn Read [email protected] Managing Editor: Sarah Ivany [email protected] Freehand Books an imprint of Broadview Press Cover illustration by Natalie Olsen, www.kisscutdesign.com.
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freehand books
spring 2011
Freehand Books
an imprint of Broadview Press
Acquiring Editor: Robyn [email protected]
Managing Editor: Sarah [email protected]
412 - 815 1st Street SWCalgary, ABT2P 1N3tel. 403-452-5662fax. 403-233-0001
Cover illustration by Natalie Olsen, www.kisscutdesign.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.
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 and present, Ruth gently surfaces Elspeth and James’s vulnerabilities, their regrets, and their deepest longings.
ISBN 978-1-55481-054-3
$21.95 CDN
5.5 X 9 PB, 200 PAGES
NOVEL
APRIL 2011
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.
PRAISE FOR KRISTEN DEN HARTOG’S WATER WINGS:
“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
“Exuberant.... A lively, funny read—sometimes tender, sometimes mordant, often both.... den Hartog is the mistress of the
insightful non sequitur, and she writes about childhood trauma in the same surreal way it actually presents itself in life.... Her writing style is as intricate, as gorgeous—and as reluctant to
settle—as the butterflies that are her central metaphor.”—Calgary Herald
• promotional postcards• author appearances: Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Guelph, Kingston• national advertising • pitches to major literary festivals • national review mailing
APRIL FICTION 1
Photo: Jeff Winch
A Description of the Blazing WorldA novel by Michael Murphy
After Morgan Wells’s wife leaves him, a postcard from France arrives. It is addressed to a Morgan Wells—but not the Morgan Wells who receives it. Desperate to be led out of his despair, Morgan decides to read the postcard as a sign and embark upon a surreal journey to find, observe, and meet the other Morgan Wellses in the city of Toronto.
On the day that a 2003 citywide power outage submerges Toronto in darkness, a teenage boy finds a missive of his own: a copy of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, one of the first science fiction novels ever written. The boy, obsessed with the Choose Your Own Adventure series, interprets the coincidence of finding the book during the blackout as a premonition, and begins looking for proof that the end of the world is near.
A Description of the Blazing World interlaces two narratives in a novel about the city in the new millennium: a crowded space that incubates signs of an apocalypse that never quite materializes. But it is this very threat of imminent danger—that everything could go up in blazes—that drives a reclusive man and a lonely boy to search for their respective revelations.
ISBN 978-1-55111-730-0
$21.95 CDN • $21.95 US
6 X 9 PB, 280 PAGES
NOVEL
APRIL 2011
WORLD RIGHTS
Michael Murphy lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His work has been published in The Fiddlehead, The Windsor Review, and filling Station. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, and is currently studying at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. This is his first novel.
• promotional postcards• author appearances: Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax• national advertising • pitches to major literary festivals • national review mailing
2 APRIL FICTION
FROM A DESCRIPTION OF THE BLAZING WORLD:
For lack of a better term, Dave is my brother. He’s also my mortal enemy, my arch-nemesis, the Borg to my Picard. Everything about him is the opposite of me. He does not listen to music. He hates movies, especially movies that are based on books. He always compares them to the books they were based on, and will talk over the movie whenever something happens that didn’t happen in the book. He says he hates TV too, though he watches more TV than anyone I know. Another thing he said, though I don’t have a record of it, is that reality programs are products of lazy writing. I told him that didn’t make any sense, and he said that’s because I’m an idiot, which doesn’t seem like a very good argument, especially coming from someone who dropped out of university after six years of wasted effort. He thinks that constantly reading detective stories and comic books, which he calls graphic novels, makes him an authority on everything. He has a whole bookcase in his office full of comics and he would definitely murder me in my sleep if he knew that I touched them.
Not Anyone’s AnythingShort stories by Ian Williams
Ian Williams’s Not Anyone’s Anything is a trio of trios: three sets of three stories, with three of those stories further divided into thirds. Mathematical, musical, and meticulously crafted, these stories play profoundly with form, featuring flash cards and musical notations embedded in texts, literal basements, and dual narratives, semi-detached. Roaming through Toronto and its surrounding suburbia, Williams’s characters wittily and wryly draw attention to the angst and anxieties associated with being somewhere between adolescence and more-than-that. They are disastrously ambitious, cutting the flaps of skin between their fingers to play Chopin; they are restless and bored, breaking into units of new subdivisions hoping for a score; they continually test the ones they love, and, though every time feels like the last time, they might be up for one more game.
ISBN 978-1-55111-995-3
$21.95 CDN • 21.95 US
5.5 X 8.5 PB, 250 PAGES
SHORT STORIES
APRIL 2011
WORLD RIGHTS
Ian Williams completed his PhD in English at the University of Toronto and is currently a professor of American Literature at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. Williams has held fellowships or residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. He was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study. His book of poems, You Know Who You Are, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2010.
• promotional postcards• author appearances: Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Guelph, Kingston• national advertising • pitches to major literary festivals • national review mailing
APRIL FICTION 3
PRAISE FOR IAN WILLIAMS’S YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE:
“The collection includes both traditional forms and poems that abandon tradition: there is a successful villanelle, haiku, and a
triolet; there’s also some typographical trickery and conceptual poetry.”
—Quill & Quire
“Rather than whimsy, Williams uses humour and play like the best comics to address difficult contemporary issues such as race, relationships or the 21st century. Like all intriguing new voices, he excels at giving you not what you want, but what you need.”
—Telegraph-Journal
Photo: Luke Khomeriki
4 FEATURED FICTION
“Marina Endicott is really funny, a sweet-natured but sharp-eyed and quick-tongued social observer in the Jane Austen-Barbara Pym-Anne Tyler tradition, who can wring love, revulsion and
hilarity from readers in a single page.”—T.F. Rigelhof, The Globe and Mail
• Finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize!
• Over 30,000 copies sold!
• Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award—Canada and the Caribbean!
• A CBC Canada Reads 2010 selection!
• Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!
“The 11 stories that comprise The Doctrine of Affections indicate a massive talent. Headrick knows about music—and definitely
about writing. Add in a trenchant sensibility and a gentle wisdom about relationships, and his debut short-story
collection is a winner.”—Candace Fertile, Alberta Views
“Headrick’s stories highlight the importance of music in the lives of each of his characters in a believable and
sympathetic manner.”—Quill & Quire
• Longlisted for the 2011 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award!
Good to a FaultA novel by Marina Endicott
The Doctrine of AffectionsShort stories by Paul Headrick
978-1-55111-999-1$19.95 CDN
978-1-55111-978-6$23.95 CDN • $23.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
FEATURED NONFICTION 5
“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
• Longlisted for the 2011 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award!
“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
“Sarah writes and draws with perspicacity, humour and even anger... Her experience pulsates with
realism and life, even while her mother is slowly disappearing… By creating this book, she has
re-created her mother, a woman anyone would be privileged to have known. ”
—The Vancouver Sun
• Finalist for the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize!
• Included in The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2010!
Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental IllnessA graphic memoir by Clem Martini and Olivier Martini
Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and meA graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt
978-1-55111-928-1$23.95 CDN
978-1-55111-117-9$23.95 CDN
6 FEATURED POETRY
“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.”—The Winnipeg Free Press
• Shortlisted for the 2009 CAA-Book Television Emerging Author Award!
• Shortlisted for the 2010 Bookland Emerging Author Award!
“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
• Longlisted for the 2011 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award!
HarmonicsPoetry by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Here Is Where We DisembarkPoetry by Clea Roberts
978-1-55111-960-1$16.95 CDN • $16.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
978-1-55111-851-2$16.95 CDN • $16.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
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TITLES IN PRINT
Fiction
978-1-55481-054-3978-1-55481-016-1978-1-55111-879-6978-1-55111-730-0
978-1-55111-978-6978-1-55111-999-1978-1-55111-927-4978-1-55111-995-3978-1-55111-932-8978-1-55111-925-0
And Me Among ThemBlue Sunflower StartleBuying Cigarettes for the DogDescription of the Blazing World, ADoctrine of Affections, TheGood to a FaultMother SuperiorNot Anyone’s AnythingOpen Armspostcard and other stories
Kristen den HartogYasmin LadhaStuart RossMichael Murphy
Paul HeadrickMarina EndicottSaleema NawazIan WilliamsMarina EndicottAnik See
2011201020092011
201020092008201120092009
21.9521.9519.9521.95
23.9519.9523.9521.9523.9523.95
CDN
21.9519.9521.95
23.95
23.9521.95
23.95
29.9529.9529.95
29.95
29.9529.95
29.95
US AUS
Nonfiction
978-1-55111-928-1
978-1-55111-930-4978-1-55111-117-9
Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental IllnessPathologies: A Life in EssaysTangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me
Clem Martini and Olivier MartiniSusan OldingSarah Leavitt
2010
20082010
23.95
23.9523.95
23.95 29.95
978-1-55111-960-1978-1-55111-851-2978-1-55111-926-7
978-1-55111-961-8
HarmonicsHere Is Where We DisembarkIt’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield PoemssubUrban Legends
Jesse FergusonClea RobertsJeanette Lynes
Joan Crate
200920102008
2009
16.9516.9516.95
16.95
Poetry
16.9516.9516.95
16.95
20.9520.9520.95
20.95
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