Correction Road Launch!!

 New Time!!

Join Glen Dresser on at 6:00 on December 4 for the release of Correction Road, at McNally Robinson booksellers in downtown Calgary. Published by Oberon Press of Ottawa, Correction Road tells the story of three individuals living in a small community along the Alberta Saskatchewan border. The launch will take place in the Prairie Ink restaurant on the upper level.

About Correction Road

A correction road is a line along which the vast grid of prairie roads is reset and the distortion caused by the curvature of the earth is corrected. It is a point of disharmony between layers; a modern era ill-fit upon the natural world beneath it. An officer with the Alberta Rat Patrol, Hugh is familiar with correction roads. He spends the autumn of 1979 patrolling a county along the Saskatchewan border in search of a particularly elusive rat. In a small town along the border, Walt closes down his museum for the winter and allows his drinking to pull him back into his memories of a past love. Joan tries to craft a future with Hugh, but is drawn increasingly toward the enigmatic curator who visits her liquor store. Though connected by an intimate and omniscient narrative, each wages a quiet and personal struggle against the traps of their lives: relationships, small towns, obligations and old memories. Correction Road is a novel about the borders: the natural borders we erode, our own borders we create, and the tendency of the latter to diminish while the former persists.  

About Glen Dresser

Glen Dresser was born in 1977 and grew up on a farm near the small prairie town of Carbon, Alberta. A childhood love of writing led him to pursue an education first in journalism and later in technical writing, both at Mount Royal College. He currently works as a technical writer in Calgary, where he lives with his wife and their cardigan corgi. With his wife, he co-founded a gallery and bookstore highlighting the world of illustration and design; there, he has written everything from greeting cards to books on exhibitions. Correction Road is his first novel. For more information, see www.glendresser.ca.

About Oberon Press

Oberon Press is an independent Canadian literary publisher founded more than 40 years ago to help give Canadians books of their own. It is operated and owned by Canadians and publishes only books by Canadian writers. Among the authors that they have published are W.P Kinsella, David Adams Richards, and Rohinton Mistry. For more information, see www.oberonpress.ca.