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Westwood Creative Artists ___________________________________________ FRANKFURT CATALOGUE Fall 2012 INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS Laura Cook Natasha Haines (on leave) AGENTS Carolyn Forde Jackie Kaiser Michael A. Levine Linda McKnight Hilary McMahon John Pearce Bruce Westwood FILM & TELEVISION Michael A. Levine Dara Rowland 94 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1G6 Canada Phone: (416) 964-3302 ext. 228 Fax: (416) 975-9209 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.wcaltd.com RECENT SALES FICTION Gina Buonaguro & Janice Kirk CIAO BELLA (Hungary: Tericum Kiado) Natalee Caple IN CALAMITY’S WAKE (US: Bloomsbury) Kimberley Fu FOR TODAY I AM A BOY (Australia: Random House) Sandra Gulland IN THE SERVICE OF THE SHADOW QUEEN (US: Doubleday / Random House) Elizabeth Hay ALONE IN THE CLASSROOM (Quebec: XYZ; US: MacLehose Press) Thomas King ONE GOOD STORY, THAT ONE (US: University of Minnesota Press); A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIANS IN CANADA (US: University of Minnesota Press) Robert Kroetsch THE LOVELY TREACHERY OF WORDS (Japan: Sairyusha) Alice Kuipers FORTY THINGS I WANT TO TELL YOU (Croatia: Skorpion Publishing) Kyo Maclear STRAY LOVE (Israel: Matar) Yann Martel BEATRICE AND VIRGIL (Hungary: Cartaphilus); LIFE OF PI (Bulgaria: Prosoretz [lic ext]; Denmark: People’s Press [lic ext]; Finland: Tammi [lic ext]; Hungary: Europa [lic ext]; India – Tamil: Ethir Veliyedu; Indonesia: Gramedia [lic ext]; Israel: Kinneret [lic ext]; Italy: Piemme [lic ext]; Korea: Jakkajungsin [lic ext]; Quebec: XYZ [lic ext]; Russia: Exmo [lic ext]; Thailand: Earnest Publishing; Turkey: Inkilap [lic ext]) Rohinton Mistry FAMILY MATTERS (China Complex: Persimmon Cultural; Korea: Asia Publishers [lic ext]); A FINE BALANCE (Korea: Asia Publishers [lic ext]; Norway: Aschehoug [lic ext]; Vietnam: Tre Publishing); SUCH A LONG JOURNEY (Korea: Asia Publishers [lic ext]) Riel Nason THE TOWN THAT DROWNED (Australia: Allen & Unwin) Cathy Ostlere KARMA (Russia: Pink Giraffe) John Ralston Saul DARK DIVERSIONS (Serbia: Arhipelag) Manjushree Thapa SEASONS OF FLIGHT (India: Aleph); TILLED EARTH (India: Aleph) Robert Paul Weston CREATURE DEPARTMENT (World: Razorbill / Penguin US) WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 1 NON-FICTION Izzeldin Abuelaish I SHALL NOT HATE (Korea: Little Mountain) Barbara Arrowsmith-Young THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER BRAIN (China Complex: Business Weekly Publications; Korea: Korea Price Information Corp.) Romeo Dallaire SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (Japan: Fukosha [lic ext]) Ann Dowsett Johnston THE DRINKING DIARIES (World: HarperCollins US [Australia: HarperCollins, Canada: HarperCollins, UK: HarperCollins]) Thomas King THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN (US: University of Minnesota Press) Dr. Marc Lewis MEMOIRS OF AN ADDICTED BRAIN (Holland: Maven) Marc Raboy MARCONI AND OUR TIME (World English: Oxford University Press US) Fiona Stevenson & Lyranda Martin-Evans REASONS MOMMY DRINKS (World: Crown / Random House US) Manjushree Thapa A BOY FROM SIKLIS (India: Aleph); LIVES WE HAVE LOST (India: Aleph) WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 2 FICTION David Bergen THE AGE OF HOPE ________________________________________________________________________ “Why is Bergen so magical? What has he done with my cynical reviewer’s mind? Bergen took a risk, with a book that looks and sounds like forgettable book club fare, but is anything but. The risk paid off.” – Zoe Whittall, The National Post From Dublin IMPAC Award shortlisted novelist David Bergen comes a tale of remarkable love and heartbreak – the story of a generation caught between tradition and liberation. In 1951, at the age of twenty-one, Hope Koop leaves behind the hardships of her childhood and sets aside her ambitions of becoming a nurse in order to marry Roy, the Mennonite son of a car dealer. On her wedding night she rises from bed and walks around their little house, touching her Kenmore stove, the Mixmaster, the oak dining room set, and marveling at her good fortune. Hope gives birth to three children in quick succession, and then to a fourth. Soon after her youngest arrives, Hope finds that she can no longer recall the number or names of her children, and she drives out to the edge of town, abandons her baby and her Chevy Impala at the side of the road, and walks out into a field to die. She is rescued by a farmer and treated with electroshock therapy, and recalls her mother’s words during her convalescence: “Just imagine you’ve arrived at the end of the road and there isn’t anywhere else to go. Then you make do with what you have.” After three months in the hospital, she returns home to Roy and the children, and carries on. But her home and children have been changed forever by her absence, as has she. As Hope’s consciousness is raised by the turbulent sixties, and by her friend Emily who left her husband for a bohemian life in the city, she strives to find a solid place in the ever-changing family she has nurtured. How valuable is she to them, and indeed to the world? Witnessing the rise and fall of her husband’s fortunes, and watching her children grow up and accumulate disappointments and hardships of their own, she fears both that she has loved her family too deeply, and that she has not loved them deeply enough. Told with great compassion, The Age of Hope is a beautifully nuanced portrait of an ordinary woman who, over fifty years, passes through periods of innocence, despair, profit, longing, and hope, striving all the while to understand – and to continually redefine – her worth to herself, her family, and to the world. DAVID BERGEN was shortlisted for the 2012 Dublin IMPAC Award and the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Matter with Morris. He is also the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novel The Time In Between, and other award-winning works of fiction. RIGHTS SOLD Canada: Phyllis Bruce Books / HarperCollins STATUS: Books available AUTHOR’S WEBSITE: www.davidbergen.ca FILM RIGHTS: Available AGENT: Jackie Kaiser WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 3 FICTION Gina Buonaguro & Janice Kirk THE WOLVES OF ST. PETER’S ________________________________________________________________________ An exciting, highly atmospheric historical novel that’s also a murder mystery. Set in Itlay during the Renaissance, this is perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant, Sarah Waters – and Donna Leon too. Rome, November 1508. But not the Rome of historical romances, Renaissance fairs, or Da Vinci Code-style conspiracy theories. This is Rome as it really was then: a violent, corrupt, medieval town of disease-ridden slums, where in the absence of accountable law enforcement, citizens form their own complex – but not always trustworthy – networks of protection and support. Michaelangelo’s houseboy, Francesco degli Angeli, is a young man who recently lost his employment as lawyer for Florentine landowner Guido del Mare when he fell in love with Guido’s wife. Now Guido is out for revenge, and Francesco’s family has sent him away to work for Michelangelo. The taciturn artist, who trusts no one in Rome, not even the Pope, is making slow progress on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Meanwhile his rival, the charming Raphael, is competitively at work in the Vatican Apartments. Francesco spends his nights with Susanna, the maid next door, and his evenings with Raphael and his circle at the Vatican-sanctioned brothel of the courtesan Imperia. But Francesco’s comfortable exile ends the day he watches the body of one of Imperia’s prostitutes being dragged from the swollen Tiber. She is Calendula, a prostitute whom Francesco has found disquieting because her golden hair gave her an uncomfortable resemblance to Guido’s wife Juliet. Francesco becomes obsessed with hunting down Calendula’s killer, and quickly discovers that there can be dozens of motives for wanting one prostitute dead. As heavy rains threaten and starving wolves come to the city in search of food, Guido also appears. There are murders, plots and counter-plots – and finally a personal tragedy for Francesco, after which he is forced to leave Rome. As he bids Michelangelo farewell, it appears that the Pope will get his ceiling painted after all. (November 2012 marks the 500th anniversary of the completion of the Sistine Chapel.) GINA BUONAGURO was born in New Jersey and now lives in Toronto. JANICE KIRK was born and lives in Kingston, Ontario. After meeting in a French class in Kingston, they became writing partners and eventually co-authors of The Sidewalk Artist and Ciao Bella (both published by St. Martin’s in North America). The Sidewalk Artist, which James McKenn, author of Quattrocento called “an enchanting story of life and art, bringing to life the passion that inspires both,” has been published in Germany and Ciao Bella in Norway. The Wolves of St. Peter’s is envisaged as the first of a trilogy with Francesco Angeli as the central character. RIGHTS SOLD Canada: HarperCollins (publication 2013) STATUS: Manuscript available AUTHORS’ WEBSITE: www.sidewalkartist.blogspot.com FILM RIGHTS: Available AGENT: John Pearce WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS www.wcaltd.com 4 FICTION Natalee Caple IN CALAMITY’S WAKE ________________________________________________________________________ “Breathlessly good.” – Washington Post on Mackerel Sky “Caple is no ordinary writer. She is captivating and skilled and in possession of a startling sensibility… original and memorable… following in the footsteps of the patient wisdom and sure-footedness of Czech writer Milan Kundera.” – Vancouver Sun on The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World Miette has no desire to meet the mother who abandoned her; a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter – a woman named Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette’s beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: “You have to do it. Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you’ve heard sickening things and those things are all true but I’m sure she wants to know you.” Set in the Badlands of the North American west in the late 1800s, In Calamity’s Wake tells the story of Miette’s quest, across a landscape occupied by strangers, ghosts, and animals.
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    Recommended Reading for AP Literature & Composition Titles from Free Response Questions* Adapted from an original list by Norma J. Wilkerson. Works referred to on the AP Literature exams since 1971 (specific years in parentheses). A Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00) Adam Bede by George Eliot (06) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08) The Aeneid by Virgil (06) Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08) All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08) America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03) The American by Henry James (05, 07) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08) Another Country by James Baldwin (95) Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05) Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91) Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94) Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07) As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92 05. 06) Atonement by Ian McEwan (07) Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05) The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07) B "The Bear" by William Faulkner (94, 06) Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07) A Bend in the River by V.