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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. From
a Town Now Dreaming by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-0-5 $20.00 From a Town Now Dreaming is written in the style of a hoax. “The protagonist is Dr. Koski of the
Seven Arrows Medical Clinic in Blazon, Wyoming. In classic fashion, the
doctor keeps a journal of the strange events that unfold in his town. People
have bizarre dreams, children are frightened of a monk, flies form themselves
into letters and leave messages. Fortunately, the writers’ sense of the
absurd keep the reader turning pages… My funny bone was well and truly
tickled by all of this.” Zoë Landale, U.B.C. Alumni Chronicle ________________________________________________________________________________ Journeys That Bring
Us Here by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-2-1 $15.00 “When Journeys That Bring Us Here arrived I set all other reading aside… The title story is one of the best
I’ve read in years… ‘Have a Little Decency’ carries the reserve that marks
fine story writers like Hemingway and Ray Carver… Mostly what I like is the
‘on the road’ sort of feel that has more to do with Steinbeck and such people
than it does with Kerouac and his crowd. I like the lonesomeness, the ability
to keep going when every message says ‘give up,’ the tenacity of the human
spirit. There are damned few writers with the experience to write such stuff
these days.” Jack Cady, author of
The Well, Inagehi,
The Off Season and other books. ________________________________________________________________________________ Man’s
Sadness by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-9-9 $15.00 “In this 115-page novella,
Hekkanen introduces the reader to Jerry Rantala, a fugitive, known as The
Rant Man of the violent Weatherman movement of the early 1970s… Few pages
pass before the reader feels he knows the Rant Man. His remarks, phraseology
depict an aging man still simmering with frustration, anger and high emotion
of a bygone era… At the same time, there is warmth. We learn about Rantala’s
Finnish roots, his connection to the past, and his fragile feelings for his
family. This enables the reader to grasp, and perhaps better understand the
mind of this complex and angry character… If you can get past the graphic
language, which some may find objectionable, there is a message here.” Karen Berg Douglas, The Finnish American Reporter ________________________________________________________________________________ Bridge
over the Tampere Rapids and Other Finnish Stories by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9682800-2-1 $18.00 “Bridge Over the Tampere Rapids, and Other
Finnish Stories...is a book that
many second, third and fourth generation Finns in North America could profit
from reading. In this collection of stories and essays, Hekkanen deals with
numerous personal and ethnic identity issues… Hekkanen writes serious essays
and fiction that reflect his strong opinions about whatever he is
considering. He doesn’t back away from saying what he feels… At the same time
there is a great amount of humor and human warmth in his stories.” Gerry Luoma Henkel, The Finnish American Reporter ________________________________________________________________________________ Turning
Life into Fiction by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-4-8 $16.00 In addition to offering helpful
advice on how to turn life into fiction, Ernest Hekkanen explores why human
beings must by necessity engage in this activity. In a penetrating discourse
that covers physics, psychology, philosophy, economics and religion, he comes
to the conclusion that the metaphors we subscribe to on a daily basis have
resulted in us standing in the way of our evolution as a species. ________________________________________________________________________________ The
Wedding Cycle by Ernest Hekkanen ISBN 0-9699162-3-X $12.00 This collection of poems
explores the nature of belief. Once we have entered the dark forest of doubt,
and have had every belief stripped from us, what do we turn to for guidance?
Is there a “myth dreamed into flesh,” one that is “too stubborn for
obituaries to digest?” Though the poems in this volume stand on their own,
they are arranged in three narrative cycles. |