Coming Soon from NeWest Press

Edmonton-based NeWest Press, a publisher of fiction, plays, poetry and general non-fiction, has a lot in store for the Fall of 2000. With its biggest catalogue in its 21 year history, the Press will be publishing 8 new releases. Here is a sampling of just a few of them.

Watershed is the final book by Alberta environmentalist and Statesman Grant Macewan. MacEwan, who died this past summer and has a college in Edmonton which bears his name, writes astutely on the topic of water, drawing upon his life experience as a farmer. He discusses water in the context of how it affects us on a daily basis as well as environmental repercussions of its exploitation.

Award-winning and internationally renown playwright Brad Fraser is back with yet another controversial and compelling work. Snake in Fridge is inspired by Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and compiles a motley assortment of characters living in a misfit house: a stripper, pornographer, and a busboy who aspires to be a waiter, just to name a few. When the "dead" pet snake of one of them escapes all chaos erupts.

Bruce Allen Powe's The Aberhart Summer was first published in 1983. NeWest presents a new edition of this novel which combines fact and fiction to present a story of the time period where William Aberhart led the right-wing Social Credit Party in Alberta. A young man's mysterious death intertwined with a plethora of bizarre circumstances are presented through the memories of the main character.

I'm Frankie Sterne by Regina-based journalist, novelist, and poet David Margoshes, spans a twenty-five year period in the life of a man torn between two identities. A musician who becomes involved with left wing politics, reflecting both sides of his parentage respectively, he ultimately flees to Canada and embraces and entirely new life.

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Next Time: Fall offerings from the University of Calgary Press.

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