The Plight House, a novel by Jason Hrivnak » Press Coverage

Globe and Mail review

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:54:42 +0000

“Hrivnak 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

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:09 +0000

“Heartbreak, 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

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Open Book Toronto interview

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:34:25 +0000

Pedlar Press publisher Beth Follett interviews Jason Hrivnak about the process of writing The Plight House.

“Bright and alienated youths never really go away and neither, of course, do their scars. That’s the great thing about taking as one’s subject matter the experiences — sickness, insanity, violence, love — that nobody comes through unscathed. The readership of such material isn’t defined by conventional demographic criteria, but, rather, by each individual reader’s willingness to journey into a territory filled with peril, perhaps even pain.”

See the complete interview on the Open Book Toronto website.

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Lynn Crosbie review

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:29:51 +0000

“First Rule of The Plight House: everyone talk about The Plight House. Hrivnak writes like a crazy angel in this addictive, astonishing debut.”

— LYNN CROSBIE