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Reinventing the Rose – By Kenneth J. Harvey

By Kenneth J. Harvey

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As a fatherless girl with a mother who persistently encouraged her daughter's artistic temperament, Anna Wells is highly sensitive to the life developing in her when she discovers she is pregnant. Anna's gynecologist boyfriend, Kevin, considers the time just not right to have children, so Anna moves to a 100-year-old house in Bareneed, an abandoned cove in Newfoundland, where she takes comfort in renovating the interior of her new home and working on a series of paintings detailing roses.

Paralleling Anna's own journey is a minutely detailed, day-by-day development of the embryo. All goes well until a car arrives delivering a court summons. Kevin has filed a statement of claim seeking the termination of the embryo as "return of property."

One night, while still in Bareneed and upset over the impending legal action, Anna discovers an abandoned little girl almost frozen to death in her front yard. Mysterious circumstances continue to surround the children in Bareneed as pro-choice and pro-life factions marshal their forces.

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Reinventing the Rose

"If there isnt a category of literature known as Maritime Postmodern, Kenneth J. Harvey continues to make a case that there should be, with himself as its leading proponent. Like 2006s Inside, about a wrongly convicted man attempting to reintegrate into society, Reinventing the Rose deftly explores themes of alienation and lays bare the interior life of its protagonist."

Quill and Quire
July 1, 2011

"Harvey is a careful painter himself, constructing Anna with care and complexity. Particularly beautiful are the books initial chapters detailing her private pain."

The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
July 17, 2011

"Reinventing the Rose delivers timely counterpunches against the economic and cultural policies of every political regime that uses the language of stable government and family values to overturn womens rights."

The Globe and Mail
July 23, 2011

"Profoundly entertaining...a pulpy page-turner."

The National Post
July 23, 2011

"Part psychological thriller, part political conflict pro-life and pro-choice activists go head to head Reinventing The Rose is a potent page-turner."

NOW Magazine
August 4, 2011

"Reinventing the Rose rejects the simple clichs of consumer-culture pregnancy mags in favour of something else... with elements so unsettling they raise the hair on my neck."

The Edmonton Journal
August 7, 2011

"In Reinventing the Rose, Kenneth J. Harvey has crafted a startling and unique story of a woman whose body and the pregnancy that lies within it are no longer her own. Harveys ability to create suspense through intimate details, unanswered questions and presences, is remarkable and lasting. By throwing splashes of color into a black and white landscape, Harvey knows how to manipulate a single, simple moment and give it the weight of the world."

Bookfridge.com
September 7, 2011

"Newfoundland-born-and-bred-in-the-bone Kenneth J. Harvey, Back-of-Beyonder Wonder, master of several literary forms as well as artistic genres including poetry, commentaria, criticism, filmmaking and, most notably, fiction, especially the rapturously received just-published Reinventing the Rose..."

The Globe and Mail
September 16, 2011

"Horrific, offensive and greatly entertaining."

The Ottawa Citizen
September 30, 2011

"The newest work from acclaimed Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey's Reinventing the Rose has already reached international bestseller status with a gripping and at times dark story sure to pull at a wide range of emotions."

The Newfoundland Herald
October 29, 2011

"This book had me gripped right away, with that a signature narrative hook of hisI was reading the thing, all alone, outside a neighbourless cabin, in the pitch black night, and like a little girl, ran inside and turned on all the lights. Hes got a way of mastering point of view that puts his story under your skin and your nerves on edge."

The Telegram
December 16, 2011

This is a book that hardly ever rests. Every turn reveals something fantastical, phantasmagoric and that word again audacious.

Toronto Star
January 7, 2012