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NEW LEAF EDITIONS

This series is devoted to first
books by emerging writers.

Thistledown Press began as a
publisher of new voices and
since then has launched the
careers of many poets and fic-
tion writers.

New Leaf Editions continues
Thistledown’s committment
to first books.

SERIES SEVEN -~ 2001

HAROLD JOHNSON
Billy Tinker

SHERI BENNING
Earth After Rain

CALVIN DANIELS
Skating the Edge

BRENDA SCHMIDT
A Haunting Sun

{N CANADA

ISBN 1-894345-33-9

9°781894"345330

This is a gritty tale detailing the hardships
faced by labourers (once known as “packsack
miners”) in Northern Saskatchewan mining
camps. Billy Tinker offets a rare combination
of realism and magic that draws out many of
the contradictions and tests facefi'b‘y N

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