The ReLit Awards, now in their tenth year, recognize works published by Canada’s independent presses. Winners will be announced on October 20th at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
The Plight House shortlisted for a ReLit Award
August 31st, 2010Dennis Cooper ♥ The Plight House
April 28th, 2010Dennis Cooper, author of transgressive classics Closer and Frisk, has included The Plight House (alongside works by Jean-Christophe Valtat and Pascal Quignard) in his recent blog entry “Three books I read recently and loved”.
The Plight House featured at Blackberry Books
April 26th, 2010With this novel, Jason Hrivnak will reach inside you and pull your heart out. The unnamed narrator takes us on a deeply personal journey after learning of the suicide of his childhood best friend. This doesn’t read like a typical novel and therein lies its strength — Hrivnak doesn’t follow conventions of style or narrative and this allows him to reach new depths and heights of despair, hope, passion and pain.
— MARY-ANN
Globe and Mail review
March 5th, 2010Hrivnak succinctly posits a triple-barrelled theme: grief bound tightly with innocence and guilt … [He] is an elegant and often incisive prose stylist, skilled at image-making and intent on exploring difficult questions of personal and societal responsibility.
— JIM BARTLEY
Review on Dead Clothes Sing
October 18th, 2009Heartbreak, horror, and impossibly brutal choices may all be yours in The Plight House. This first novel by Jason Hrivnak is like nothing I’ve ever read, and still troubles me.
— CREFFIELD
Open Book Toronto interview
October 18th, 2009Pedlar Press publisher Beth Follett interviews Jason Hrivnak about the process of writing The Plight House. See the complete interview on the Open Book Toronto website.
Launch Party Announced
September 13th, 2009The Toronto release party for Jason Hrivnak’s debut novel, The Plight House, will be Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 7:30 pm at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom. 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario.
Everyone welcome. Call 416.534.2011 for more information.
Lynn Crosbie review
September 13th, 2009First Rule of The Plight House: everyone talk about The Plight House. Hrivnak writes like a crazy angel in this addictive, astonishing debut.
— LYNN CROSBIE
