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4S5 Canada Tel: 250-354-0494 To purchase any of the following books, make out a check for the price,
add $7.00 for shipping and handling and send your check to the above address. Heretic! by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-08-1 $18.00 In this short but hard-hitting
book, Hekkanen explores what it is to be a heretic. Following in the
tradition of Leo Tolstoys The
Slavery of Our Times and Albert Camus LHomme Rιvoltι, it examines our
most precious beliefs. Hekkanen exposes our shameless need to be enslaved by
one story or another or, as he refers to them, ruling fictions. [Heretic!] isnt going to
make you happy, but it will jolt you out of your isms and the lethargy
induced by the grand received narratives we have inherited. Either that, or
it will make you really angry. For sure, it is not a book to be taken
lightly. Beth L. Virtanen, PhD,
New World Finn - All
Worldly Pursuits by Hillel Wright ISBN 0-9687317-6-7 $20.00 With luminous and articulate
writing, Wright tells the story of Wiley Moon
He has a lust for life and a
passion that involves the reader in his story. W.P.
Kinsella, Books in Canada Readers with a taste for
nautical fiction will find much to enjoy
The salt all but sprays from the
page. Peter OConnor, The Daily Yomiuri Melancholy
and Mystery of a Street by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-05-7 $23.00 With wry shades of Franz Kafka and an opening quote from Thomas Mann
Quiet! We want to look into a soul. some of the stories in Ernest
Hekkanens 34th title unfold in Italy, Switzerland, Finland and Afghanistan.
A Finn traveling through Afghanistan on a bicycle finds himself in a
folktale. Famous Italian authors plot to win a Lifetime Achievement Aware.
Fantasy and reality are comfortable bedfellow throughout. Jeremy Twigg, BC BookWorld The
Life of Bartholomew G. by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-06-5 $18.00 The central character in The Life of Bartholomew G. is a lowly ESL teacher who has legally changed his name from Bartholomew
Gustafson to echo the Kafkaesque character known as K
Bartholomew G. jumps
back and forth between self-loathing and self-aggrandizement like a literary
hybrid of Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman
Like a traffic accident, we cant
help but look.
Alan Twigg, BC
BookWorld Reading Hekkanens The Life of Bartholomew G. is like volunteering for an afternoon of laughter and tears with a manic
depressive who is both elated by and ashamed of himself. Beth
L. Virtanen, PhD, New
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