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"Before I Wake is a stunning debut. Robert Wiersema's novel is original, thought-provoking and downright wonderful."
 “We go along for this unusual ride – that takes us to purgatory and awakens images of the inquisition – because we trust Wiersema’s consummate skill: a talent that makes him one of our most promising and original voices.” –The Gazette (Montreal)  |
W His first novel, Before I Wake, was published in Canada (by Random House Canada) in 2006, and became a national bestseller. It will be published in the United States (by St Martin’s Press) in May, 2007, and in the United Kingdom (by Pan MacMillan) in June, 2006. Other editions and translations will follow. Enjoy the site – hang around, make yourself at home. Glad to have you here. Robert's latest journal entry: If you ever wonder? … why editing takes so long, it's simple: everybody's got to have their say. Take this communication, from earlier this morning: That, for the record, is The Dude (aka Totoro), hard at work on the manuscript of the new book… Writing in Restaurants And why I don't… Walk into any Starbucks, and they're there — the writers, the fellow travellers in the word trade, hunched over notebooks or tapping into laptops, sipping gently at venti whatevers, stretching out their time and staking out their space. I used to be one of them. Writing in restaurants and coffee-shops was once a [...] The Circle Game I may have mentioned this before, but it seems apropos: One of my favourite bits of dialogue from the late and still-lamented two-season tv series Sports Night (Aaron Sorkin's precursor to both The West Wing and Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip) comes from the episode "The Quality of Mercy at 29K": Casey McCall: It's a [...] |
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