Spring 2013 Catalogue

Quattro Books | Spring 2013

Helena’s disfigured face has defined her since childhood, yet with her older

sister Grace’s unconditional love and encouragement, she is able to establish

a sense of normalcy. Grace’s sudden death leaves Helena stunned and broken-

hearted, but also leaves her with an unexpected inheritance. With only one day

to make her decision, Helena becomes increasingly desperate to understand the

real motivation behind Grace’s gift. Inheritance is a meditation on the power

and fragility of appearances, and how those who love us help us love ourselves.

Fiction | 120 pages | ISBN 978-1-927443-35-4 | $14.95 | April 1, 2013

Inheritance Kirsten Gundlack

Kirsten Gundlack found her path into fiction by way of acting,

ESL teaching in Tokyo, and freelance writing for creative

businesses. She is a graduate of the York University actor training

program, the Humber School for Writers and the Creative

Writing MFA program at the University of Guelph-Humber. A

passionate observer of science and technology trends, she often

dreams of electric sheep. Inheritance, co-winner of the 2013 Ken

Klonsky Novella Contest, is her first novella.

The year is 1773. Anne Grant cannot bear that her father has betrothed her to a

man who is as cruel as he is wealthy. Instead, she persuades her life-long friend,

Ian MacLeod, to help her flee to Ullapool and get aboard the Hector, a ship

carrying Scottish settlers to the new colony of Pictou, Nova Scotia. The voyage

begins well and the Scots look forward to a life of freedom in the New World.

But as Anne adjusts to the Hector, she begins to realize that life at sea may be

more than she bargained for: storms, smallpox and near famine threaten to tear

the ship apart.


Oatcakes and CourageJoyce Grant-Smith

Joyce Grant-Smith is a retired elementary school teacher who

has always had a thirst for the written word. She lives in the

Annapolis Valley, NS, on a small hobby farm with her husband

and various pets. Joyce enjoys writing both fiction and non-

fiction. In 2004, her novel The Latch: An Acadian Adventure was

awarded The Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Children Award and

was a finalist in the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Contest.

She is the co-winner of the 2013 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest.

New Fiction

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InheritanceKirsten Gundlack

Co-winner of the 2012 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest

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Inheritance weaves a fiercely powerful narrative through human

vanity, family, grief, and faith, all in the period of twenty-four

hours.

Oatcakes and Courage, a tribute to the brave Scots who ventured

across the North Atlantic Ocean in search of a better life, is told

with harrowing realism.

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Set in a decade before Twitter and Facebook, Terminal Grill introduces a

woman to her perfect stranger. Looks, style and wit make him irresistible and

hopping into a cab with him – inevitable. However, first impressions are never

what they seem, and she soon finds herself courting darkness, danger, and the

unknown in this story of a potentially destructive temptation.


Terminal GrillRosemary Aubert

Rosemary Aubert is the author of the award-winning Ellis

Portal mystery series. She is also a published poet, most recently

of Rough Wilderness: The Imaginary Love Poems of the Abbess Heloise. Her five romance novels have reached a world-wide

audience. Rosemary has won numerous awards for her writing,

most notably the Arthur Ellis Award (twice) for Canadian

crime fiction. Terminal Grill is Rosemary’s sixteenth published

book.

After the rupture of her most recent relationship, Chloé begins a new life by

taking a job as an advertising rep for an upscale fashion magazine in Montréal.

Her reconnection with her French Canadian soul is initially exhilarating, but

soon turns out to be disastrous. She loses her footing and enters her own world

of glass: a fragile, hypersensitive realm that eventually shatters.


World of GlassJocelyne Dubois

Jocelyne Dubois’ novella, World of Glass, was shortlisted for the

2011 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest. Her fiction has appeared

in The Dalhousie Review, Exile, carte blanche, Transition and The Toronto Quarterly, and her poetry has appeared in Canadian Women Studies (York University) and Brèves Littéraires (in English

and French translation). Her poetry chapbook, Hot Summer Night, was published in 2008 by Sky of Ink Press. Jocelyne’s visual art

has been exhibited in Montréal galleries.

New Fiction

Mystery author Rosemary Aubert’s romantic thriller Terminal Grill explores one woman’s fall into the sensuous trap of a man so

mysterious, witty, and slick, he’s just too good to be true.

World of Glass is a disquieting insight on the internal struggles

and stigmas of mental health experienced through the eyes of one

woman caught in a vicious, downward spiral.

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A hidden treasure of Aquin’s oeuvre, The Invention of Death is a story incubated

from the author’s early writing days. An incendiary story of jealousy, adultery

and suicide, The Invention of Death toes the line between the contemplations of

youth and those of maturity. Published fourteen years after Aquin’s death, this

mysterious work casts us into a crisis world where God does not exist, paths

are volatile, and humanity is fragile in the grips of a vast and unpredictable

darkness.


The Invention of DeathHubert Aquin | Translated by Joseph Jones

Hubert Aquin (1929-1977) is considered by both Québec

and Canada as one of our greatest authors. He was offered a

Governor General’s award for his second novel Blackout; received

the Prix de La Presse for his third novel The Antiphonary; and

was awarded the Prix de la Ville de Montréal for Hamlet’s Twin,

his fourth and final novel. In 1972, he received the Prix David

for his entire body of work. Since his death in 1977, Aquin’s

oeuvre has been and continues to be the object of numerous

journal articles and academic dissertations, not only in Canada

but worldwide.

The Sandbar is a collection of vignettes from The Sandbar, a small-town watering

hole in Northern Michigan owned by an eccentric couple with a penchant

for stiff drinks. At an early age, their nephew gains an appreciation for exotic

cocktails and for the quirky intricacies of family relations. The Sandbar follows

Nephew’s experiences as a displaced Québécois youth growing up at the bar

against the backdrop of such monumental events as the Detroit riots, Marilyn

Monroe’s death and the beginnings of the Hippie movement.


The SandbarJean-Paul Daoust | Translated by Susan Ouriou & Christelle Morelli

Jean-Paul Daoust is a Québécois poet, essayist, and author.

He has published thirty books of poetry and two novels since

1976, including Les cendres bleues which won the Governor

General’s Award in 1990. Daoust received the Grand Prix at

the Trois-Rivières Poetry Festival in 2009 for Le vitrail brisé and the Gatien-Lapointe-Jaime Sabines Poetry Prize in 2012.

Fiction | Translation

QUATTRO FICTION

The SandbarJean -Paul Daoust

The Invention of Death is strikingly daring, attacking the taboos

of our time with unrelenting vigour, mastery, and heartbreaking

fragility.

The Sandbar is a snapshot of the 1950s and 60s “Golden Age” of

America, following a family and the colourful clientele of their

privately-owned cocktail lounge.

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Through a dazzling variety of poetic forms and styles, this book restlessly

explores such themes as identity, personal growth, love and friendship, Canadian

landscape, climate change, visual art, and the roots of poetry itself, in moods of

anxious and impassioned questioning, deep affection, dread, awe, and grateful

praise. This is acclaimed poet Allan Briesmaster’s most formally inventive, most

philosophical-minded, and most searchingly personal book to date.

Poetry | 92 pages | ISBN 978-1-927443-38-5 | $14.95 | April 1, 2013

Against the Flight of SpringAllan Briesmaster

Allan Briesmaster is a freelance editor, publisher, and literary

consultant who has been actively involved in the Canadian

literary scene for over 20 years. He is the author of 12 books

and chapbooks, the most recent of which are Confluences (Seraphim Editions, 2009) and After Evening Wine (Alfred

Gustav Press, 2011). His poems have appeared in many journals

and anthologies and he has read them in venues from Victoria,

B.C. to St. John’s, Nfld.

A love-you-love-you-not daisy petal game for the 21st century, And the cat says… is a whimsical, delectable treat; a poetry collection which weaves in some

strange haircuts, flying carpets and two sets of twins. Oh, and did we mention

the horses?

Poetry | 88 pages | ISBN 978-1-927443-40-8 | $14.95 | April 1, 2013

And the cat says...Susan L. Helwig

Susan L. Helwig grew up on a dairy farm in southwestern

Ontario just outside of Neustadt. From 1994 to 2002 she

interviewed Canadian and international authors for the radio

programme “In Other Words” on CKLN 88.1. Her poems have

appeared in many literary journals and anthologies in Canada

and abroad, and she has two previous poetry collections: Catch the Sweet (Seraphim Editions, 2001) and Pink Purse Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2006).

Poetry

Often achingly precise in mind and spirit, the authenticity of this

voice touches me.

—David Zieroth

Delicious. Entertaining. Susan L. Helwig’s And the cat says… (her

best collection so far) is so readable it makes poetry seem like a

naughty pleasure.

—David Gilmour

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Jack Layton: Art in Action is a collection of anecdotes about Jack Layton’s

involvement in Canadian arts and culture, and how his spirit continues to

influence activism in Canada today. His interest in the Canadian cultural

landscape was an underlying presence throughout his career. Art in Action encourages readers to be proactive and, as Jack would say, “Never turn down an

opportunity to serve!”

Non-fiction | 125 pages | ISBN 978-1-927443-37-8 | $24.95 | April 1, 2013

Jack Layton: Art in ActionEdited by Penn Kemp

Steve Driscoll: Intelligence with the Earth is an exuberant, luxuriously produced

book of over fifty paintings – reproduced in full colour – by the much heralded

Canadian painter Steve Driscoll. This handsomely designed volume showcases

his most recent work as a maker of brilliantly conceived, gloriously opulent,

epically vast landscape-paintings – most of which are derived from his vigorous

hiking and camping trips through the Canadian wilderness.

Non-fiction | 132 Pages | ISBN 978-1-927443-26-2 | $24.95 | Feb. 1, 2013

Steve Driscoll: Intelligence with the EarthWith Essays by Gary Michael Dault

Painter Steve Driscoll exhibits widely within Canada, with

galleries in Ontario, British Colombia, and Newfoundland. He

also shows his work internationally, having exhibited recently

in New York, Miami, and Copenhagen. Driscoll is an award-

winning graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design.

He currently lives and works in Toronto.

Fourfront Editions

Heralded by The Writers’ Union as “a one-woman literary

industry,” activist, performer, and playwright Penn Kemp is

the League of Canadian Poets’ 2012 honorary Life Member

and inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of London, Ontario

(2010-12). She has received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond

Jubilee Award for contributions to Canadian arts and culture.

Penn has published 25 books of poetry and drama, and has had

six plays and ten CDs of Sound Opera produced. Penn currently

edits poetry for Pendas Productions and hosts her Lit-on-Air

program, “Gathering Voices”.

Jack Layton: Art in Action commemorates Jack Layton’s influence

on Canadian arts and culture to encourage readers to actively

effect positive change.

The book features text by well-known Canadian writer and art

critic, Gary Michael Dault, who has provided an incisive, lyrical

prose-poem text to accompany each of the works.

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Abundance of the InfiniteChristopher Canniff

978-1-927443-07-1

$14.95

Recent Backlist

Tea with the TigerNathan Unsworth

978-1-927443-05-7

$14.95

The Proxy BrideTerri Favro

978-1-927443-06-4

$14.95

TexasClaudio Gaudio

978-1-927443-09-5

$18.95

Teachers at Their Best |Enseignants sous leur meilleur jourGina Valle

978-1-927443-08-8

$24.95

FermataDennison Smith

978-1-927443-03-3

$14.95

Little EmpiresRobert Colman

978-1-927443-02-6

$14.95

Night-EaterPatricia Young

978-1-927443-01-9

$14.95

nunamiBarbara Landry

978-1-927443-99-2

$14.95

Painting CirclesLuciano Iacobelli

978-1-927443-70-1

$14.95

parterreelías carlo

978-1-927443-22-4

$14.95

The Rules of the GameLudwig Zeller

trans. by A.F. Moritz

978-1-927443-19-4

$16.95

Too Much LoveGianna Patriarca

978-1-927443-04-0

$14.95

The UnquietIan Burgham

978-1-927443-24-8

$14.95

NevermoreDavid Day

978-1-926802-68-8

$20.00

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