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At different points during the time we are allotted,
we must leave behind what is comfortable and familiar, to
cross a threshold. What lies ahead is the promise of a new
way of understanding our relationship with the world. But
before we reach this light, we must face the darkness of the
unknown, where often the worst things we must face are the
truths underlying what we bring with us.
In this first collection of his stories, G. P. Keith follows
the passage of certain souls across that threshold, who, uncertain
of the outcome are yet willing to venture the journey, to
face terrors so they might win past to the potential prize
of the bliss that lies beyond.
Continuing the centuries-old tradition of fantastic literature
in which the boundaries of the possible are breached and the
impossible seeps in to challenge the mettle of the soul’s
life force, these eight haunting stories take the reader over
the threshold from the familiar into the unknown, where the
rules are changed and the possible and impossible are indistinguishable.
As opined in Canada’s Globe and Mail, “Keith paints
some vivid portraits of oddballs and outcasts, people saddled
(never graced) with unfathomable powers or untreatable states
of mind. The human dramas are sometimes well observed and
weirdly compelling…The book’s final sentence presents
Keith’s clarion call for the heartfelt: ‘…
he wondered if there would be enough tears for all the pain
that was in the world.’ ”
Available in Toronto at "This
Ain't the Rosedale Library" bookstore, 483 Church Street
Toronto ON. ph 416-929-9912.
Sample a story from Journeys
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The
TUXIS Boys of Prince Albert SK had in mind a yearbook to commemorate
both their province’s 100th anniversary and their own
50th, since they were all together in a United Church high
school boys’ club. The resulting book has biographies
and photos of the “boys”, as well as essays on
both the man who made that club and the sociological Canadian
background of the movement.
> Read a sample
from the book<
During its one year of production, North Wind Press provided
the TUXIS group with project management, editing, layout and
printing expertise within the allotted budget. The completed
book headed for its destined recipients during the summer
of 2006 and was received with rave reviews.
When you want to write a memoir or a family history, where
do you go to get it done the “write” way? If you
have a project that needs such assistance as we gave TUXIS
– or more, such as researching, interviewing, and writing
– Canada’s folk publisher North Wind Press will
be glad to discuss it with you.
Please email us at info@northwindpress.ca
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