Product Description: The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humor and heartbreak. By turns hilarious and poignant, it’s the story of retired pro-hockey ruffian Bobby Bonaduce, who is stubbornly ignoring a disease that may be killing him. Bobby returns to his hometown and scams his way into university in a misguided attempt to redeem his messy past and lay emotional claim to a son he abandoned 20 years earlier...read more

Product Description: A fascinating yet little-known figure in North American history, the French explorer and mapmaker Samuel de Champlain was the subject of a recent best-selling biography by historian David Hackett Fischer. The Order of Good Cheer, a highly readable novel by master storyteller Bill Gaston, offers a beautifully shaded, fictionalized portrait of Champlain, as well as a marvelous window into Canadian culture past and present...read more

Product Description: In this remarkable collection, Bill Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. This marvelous, riotous, Rabelaisian world contains gargoyles that are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions to which human beings subject themselves...read more

Off her medications and devastated by the death of a former lover, Evelyn impulsively steals a kayak and embarks on a quest into the Canadian wilderness at the side of a blocked writer whose career has been stymied by illness and alcohol, a journey that intersects with the whale research site of a gunshot survivor.

A dark, witty novel is reconstructed from the scenes presented by a cameraman who who has spent a lifetime studying an enigmatic director and several seductive, fascinating women. Original.

A collection of short stories about addiction focuses on the power of alcohol, drugs, sex, and romance, introducing a wide range of characters, from a salmon researcher to an illiterate religious healer. Original.

An aging hockey player, Bobby 'Loose' Bonaduce reaches out to his estranged son, whom he had abandoned years earlier, with unexpected results. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Gaston, Bill (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Gaston, Bill

Product Description: Book by Gaston, Bill