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Leaving Lovestiff Annie
A deeply moving meditation on love and loss, the elusiveness of truth, and the frail and befuddled mind of a deeply haunted man, this gripping, tragic and densely atmospheric novel follows the exploits of one Chris Needham as he attempts to traverse the minefield of his life along the pockmarked moonscape of the British Columbia coast. Examining the joy of love, the price of infidelity and the capacity for sorrow lurking beneath the surface of everyday experience, Leaving Lovestiff Annie is a virtuoso piece of writing that will leave the reader shaken and changed.
Falling from Heights
Fiction. Inspired by real letters and actual events that transpired at a highly controversial, government-sponsored drug experiment in Toronto in 1972, FALLING FROM HEIGHTS offers a unique and penetrating portrait of that place and time. "A totally unique, groundbreaking piece of literature....This novel deserves its own course, and is destined to be a centerpiece of both Canadian Lit and modern Lit classes"--Barb Radmore. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Needham plied a piecemeal trade as bouncer, bartender, forklift driver, computer technician and magazine editor. He lives in Vancouver.
Leaving Lovestiff Annie
A deeply moving meditation on love and loss, the elusiveness of truth, and the frail and befuddled mind of a deeply haunted man, this gripping, tragic and densely atmospheric novel follows the exploits of one Chris Needham as he attempts to traverse the minefield of his life along the pockmarked moonscape of the British Columbia coast. Examining the joy of love, the price of infidelity and the capacity for sorrow lurking beneath the surface of everyday experience, Leaving Lovestiff Annie is a virtuoso piece of writing that will leave the reader shaken and changed.
An Inverted Sort of Prayer
Cut loose at the end of a long and violent hockey career prolonged by steroids and numbed by liquor, ex-enforcer Billy Purdy discovers that the soon-to-be-published novel of a celebrated politician's son is in fact Billy's father's own, taken word for word from the original published, and promptly forgotten, some forty years before. Allowing the ruse to continue, and in an effort to distance himself from his violent past, Purdy embarks upon an exotic, oftentimes absurd adventure in an attempt to reinvent himself in what he envisions to be a more cerebral and civilized image, in a world he has never fully been a part of, or developed the necessary tools to properly inhabit. Yearning for connection of any kind, yet seemingly unable to sustain it for any length of time, Billy Purdy comes to symbolize the alienation, frustration, and ultimate futility behind this quintessential Canadian dream.
Falling from Heights
Two voices, two families, two interweaving narratives with thirty years dividing them. In 1972 Birdie Cormack enters a highly controversial experiment in Toronto. Her story unfolds piece by fascinating piece, mostly by way of a compelling series of letters written to her parents. And in 2002 Jeremy Jacks returns to the West Coast after a failed bid to become a writer back east. As he grudgingly reassumes his role at home, his brother Robert, fuelled by fear and rage and a recent suspension from his teaching position at the local high school, reels off on a dangerous and destructive path, exposing in the process the family's long-hidden secrets and leading to the novel's powerful climax. Mean...
An Inverted Sort of Prayer
Cut loose at the end of a long and violent hockey career prolonged by steroids and numbed by liquor, ex-enforcer Billy Purdy discovers that the soon-to-be-published novel of a celebrated politician's son is in fact Billy's father's own, taken word for word from the original published, and promptly forgotten, some forty years before. Allowing the ruse to continue, and in an effort to distance himself from his violent past, Purdy embarks upon an exotic, oftentimes absurd adventure in an attempt to reinvent himself in what he envisions to be a more cerebral and civilized image, in a world he has never fully been a part of, or developed the necessary tools to properly inhabit. Yearning for connection of any kind, yet seemingly unable to sustain it for any length of time, Billy Purdy comes to symbolize the alienation, frustration, and ultimate futility behind this quintessential Canadian dream.
The Christian Leader
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