Atlantic Canada’s Kenneth J. Harvey has a new novel coming up, and has signed with renowned New York agent, Peter Matson, at Sterling Lord Literistic. Matson has represented such suucesful books as Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and John Irving’s The World According to Garp. Starting with Harvey’s new novel, Reinventing the Rose, Matson will represent Harvey personally in Canada, the US and the UK.
Reinventing the Rose “concerns an artist who becomes pregnant, and her gynecologist boyfriend who takes her to court with the intention of forcing her to have an abortion. Throughout the text, the detailed development of the embryo runs side by side with the story of the battle between man and woman.” It has already been bought by the Harvey-loving Russian publisher, Centrepolygraph.
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