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Backlist One To get to the main New Orphic Index, hit the website address below:
www3.telus.net/neworphicpublishers-hekkanen New Orphic Publishers 706 Mill Street, Nelson, B.C. V1L
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. The Flat Earth Excavation Company: A
Surreal Fiction Anthology Edited by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 1-894842-00-6 $23.00 For anyone who thought
surrealism and its practitioners were all safely dead and buried, this book
should prove that the opposite is true. Edited and introduced by Ernest
Hekkanen, this anthology spans the length and breadth of surreal fiction—from
automatic writing, or thought’s dictation, to stories that are fabulistic,
mythical, alchemical and even postmodern. ____________________________________________________________________ Those Who Eat at My Table by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-0-5 $18.00 “Those Who Eat at My Table explores food as a motif for revealing human behavior… Illustrated by
Hekkanen’s ghoulishly medieval woodcuts throughout the text, Those Who Eat at My Table is cohesively and cumulatively alarming, like an exhibit by Edvard
Munch.” Jeremy Twigg, BC BookWorld _______________________________________________________________________________ Black
Snow: an imaginative memoir by Margrith Schraner
and Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-1-3 $23.95 In this wildly experimental
novel, the authors seek to recount a shared experience as accurately as
possible, only to discover how differently and inventively they remember the
past. This novel of memory relies largely on voice. “Black Snow pushes the boundaries of creative non-fiction.” Zoë Landale, U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle ________________________________________________________________________________________ Beyond
the Call a play by Ernest
Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-7-2 $12.00 “Befuddled by how the war could
have affected someone so much, Trevor draws Alex’s story out as if he were
gathering material for a book but is soon sucked into the emotionally and
physically damaged vet’s life.” Roberta Penn, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ________________________________________________________________________________ The House of Samsara by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-8-0 $14.00 The House of Samsara is a crisis novel based on Hekkanen’s play, Beyond the Call. The novel deals with the final episode of Trevor Knight’s on-the-road
trip around America. The son of a draft dodger who seeks to find out why his
father left the States in the late 1960s, he runs up against the answer in
the looming figure of Alex Koivula, a Vietnam veteran living in a ramshackle
rooming house in Seattle. ________________________________________________________________________________ Chasing
After Carnivals by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-5-6 $20.00 Set in the late 1960s, this novel examines the lives of two brothers,
Link and Tom Anderson, who come of age in small-town America during the era
of the Vietnam War. Feeling constricted by the limited horizons of Prospect,
Washington, they try various means of escape, some of which result in comedy
and some of which lead to tragedy. “Chasing After Carnivals...introduces a new author with promise.” Louise Longo, Quill & Quire ________________________________________________________________________________ The Soul You Call Your Own by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-6-4 $18.00 In this grimly comic, always
thought-provoking collection of stories, Ernest Hekkanen deals with souls
that find their hosts so irascible and hard to live with, they resort of an
uneasy kind of independence. The souls we call our own bring us face to face
with our dissociation, in an age that quakes! |