The Wabeno Feast by Drew, Wayland - 1985

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Anansi, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 280 Pages Dust Jacket Edge Chipped O/W Sound, Previous Owners Name O/W Fine. Author's First Novel..

Toronto: Anansi, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED and dated with inscription to ffep. Full black paper boards. 280 pp. Drew's obituary from the Globe, Jan. 6, 1999 laid in. Offsetting to ffep and half-title. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to edges, a few small chips to extremities. Drew's first novel. The Wabeno Feast is the story of boys growing up in a pulp-mill town in Northern Ontario whose lives fall apart as they become enmeshed in a destructive urban society. Life in contemporary Canada degenerates into a nightmare of pollution, violence, and social disorder, and only one man, searching both the personal and historical past for clues to the breakdown, finds salvation through his journey back into the natural world. The modern sequences are juxtaposed with the expedition of a 17th century Hudson's Bay trader who enters the virgin wilderness to exploit and conquer. He comes upon a primitive feast of fire and blood celebrating the Wabeno, a… Read More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: House of Anansi, 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition/printing. Book is in Fine condition with a light scratch on rear board while the jacket (in a protector) is in Very Good condition mostly with light chipping at spine ends and one short, closed tear. Signed by Wayland. An uncommon book regardless of the signature by this Canadian author! Drew is an excellent writer and this story entertains at many levels. "...The Wabeno Feast (1973), a complex tale about Holocaust and its roots, in which three narrative strands all tangibly cohere - the eighteenth-century journal of an early entrepreneur who confronts the heart of darkness in the pale wabeno (an Indian shaman), the canoe trip of a Canadian couple through the wilderness upon which the earlier visitor has already stamped the seal of the civilized world, and a Near-Future flight into the same but now savaged wilderness on the part of escapees from a Disaster directly tied to… Read More