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Last Thing My Father Gave Me by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-1-3 $20.00 “Defies categorization — it lies
somewhere in the hodgepodge of secondhand bookstore shelves where Erica Jong
paperbacks, romans à
clefs, and really good novels meet… Without
giving away the page-turning plot, it’s fair to say that after a number of
rather unusual coincidences and bizarre experiences Pamela finds herself,
good sex, and true love through (mostly Canadian) literature… That Hekkanen
gets so accurately inside a woman’s head and her physical being is
commendable.” Katja Pantzar, Quill & Quire ________________________________________________________________________________ Good
Ol’ Boy by Ed Roy and Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-968288-5-6 $29.95 From 1945 to 1972, Sheriff Willis V. McCall ran Like County, Florida like
a police state. “If you’re interested in
finding out how life in Lake County was not too long ago, you must read this
new historical novel by Ed Roy and Ernest Hekkanen. This is an eye-opener for
anyone new to the country and very accurate according to lifelong Lake
residents… Whether you agree with the authors or not, this is a must read.” Roger Ballas, The Mount Dora Topic ________________________________________________________________________________ The
Misadventures of Bumbleberry Finn by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9687317-5-9 $18.00 “Bumbleberry Finn delivers plenty of laughs along with outrageous characters and plot
lines… Hekkanen pokes gentle fun at the Finnish community in this warmhearted
tall tale where Bumbleberry Finn eventually succeeds in spite of himself.” W.P. Kinsella, Books in Canada “Two hips and a hooray for
Hekkanen! Let’s hope we hear more of the foibles of funny Finn-hood from this
masterful storyteller.” Karen Berg Douglas, The Finnish American Reporter “[The Misadventures of Bumbleberry Finn] leaves the reader with the
belief in redemption and in a person’s ability to turn his life around in
spite of some major bumbling along the road!” Sinikka McCabe, New World Finn ________________________________________________________________________________ The
Big Dave and Little Wife Convention by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-04-9 $23.00 “While Hekkanen’s writing is in the realistic tradition, the aura of the
taboo, the fantasies of the mind, the conventions and the transgressions of
them haunt the reader. The themes of descent and loss of identity sound
familiar notes, and, while Hekkanen is working within a well-developed Gothic
convention, he tunes it well to his own particular, delicate song.” Tanya
Gardiner-Scott, Canadian
Literature “Hekkanen’s skill at creating the texture of ordinary life is remarkable…
It is a measure of [his] abilities that he is able to draw the reader into
his weird world, where madness is not a clinical condition affecting only a
few, but the dark force at the centre of life.” Joan Thomas, Winnipeg Free Press “Sexual politics aside, [it] is
a clever mixture of meticulous realism and haunting fantasy guaranteed to
make you come to grips with your own fleeting mortality.” James
Dunn, The Vancouver Sun ________________________________________________________________________________ Medieval
Hour in the Author’s Mind by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-02-2 $20.00 “The unity of
opposites, the helpless repetition of doomed behavior, all couched in
intellectual puzzles, bring to mind the landscapes of certain formidable
masters—Nabokov, Kafka, Kundera, Coetzee, Borges…” Clark Blaise, Quill & Quire “[Hekkanen]
writes with the careful, dark charm we find in the stories of Isaac Bashevis
Singer, and he does so with a chiseled and ironical prose that also reminds
one of Samuel Beckett… a fascinating writer.” R.H. Solomon, Choice “A stunning achievement…” Garry Boire, Canadian Literature |