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NPE tn $T py RLV L Foe a Spa: Ss > C3 3 SEE EE pe 10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 25th, 1973 becomes a A former teacher at Port Perry High School has re- cently had his first novel published: by the House of Anansi and is now working on his second. Wayland Drew, 40, of Ce- dar Creek is enjoying favourable reviews from newspapers all across the county for his first work of fiction, The Wabeno Feast, which is reviewed else- where on this page. Wayland Drew was born in Oshawa and educated in Toronto. He has lived 15 years in Reach Township, 7 years in Manchester and for the last eight years on a 13 acre wilderness estate south of Cedar Creek. He taught in Port Perry for four years, worked for the correspondence course branch of the Ontario Mini- stry of Education for four years, then took about a year off to live on his savings and a Canada Council grant while he wrote his first book. Mr. and Mrs. Drew share the 13 acres with their four children and female great dane named Shansi. The Drews like to travel. They lived for, a while in Tobago, West Indies and spent a lot of time in the Quetico Park area of north- ern lake Superior which served as a background for the book. But home has always been Reach Town- ship. Mr. Drew's grand- parents were farmers in the Township and some of his relatives still live in the area. Wayland Drew hopes to have his second novel com- pleted by spring. a x Wayland Drew During his trips to Northern Ontario Wayland became one of the original directors of an organization which seeks to save Algonquin, Quetico and other parks from devasta- tion by lumber companies. Although he is no longer a director of the organization Mr. Drew retains his membership and his in- terest in protecting wilder- ness areas. In fact, it is this concern which forms the moral of his story, or stories, in the Wabeno Feast. The author is not the least bit apologetic about the fact that his book promotes a cause he believes in. He points out that Canadians do not buy books, particularly books by other Canadians. A successful book, he says, is one that sells between 1,500 and 2,000 copies. At $7.95 the author gets 10 percent or, in the case of 1,000 sales $795.00. Since 'the writer can not expect to make much money, opines Wayland Drew, he may as well be honest with his opinions. Wayland says he does not expect the book to have a great impact in the battle to save parts of our Canadian wilderness, but he sees it as part of the whole program PRO-SIL is a liquid silage additive which elim- inates the nutritional deficiencies of corn silage. It is highly efficient and particularly recommended in the feeding of dairy heifers and milking cows, with truly amazing results. PRO-SIL added to corn silage is a proven, Elmira, Ont. (519) 669-5401 THINKING OF $ AND ¢? PRO-SIL MAKES A LOT OF SENSE! 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"What has really satis- fied me," he says, "is the response to the book from young people." Wayland Drew does a lot of bicycle riding around Port Perry. "If I could I would do without a car alto- gether," he says. He likes to canoe. And he likes to write, but knows he can not make a living at it even though his book is receiving some acclaim. He knows he will eventually have to go back to teaching or something in order to survive. Mr. Drew bemoans the fact that authors get so little from the sale of their books. Publishers, he points out get 50 percent and bookstores get 40 percent and the author has to be content with what is left. The writer gets nothing when a book is borrowed from a public library, and he would like to see that changed. But his major complaint is that people will not read Canadian books. 'Maybe what the public is saying is that it doesn't care if there is any Canadian fiction or not," he says. BOOK REVIEW by bruce arnold The Wabeno Feast, Wayland Drew, Anansi, $7.95 "The Wabeno Feast is a powerful, skilfully (even beautifully) written book which suggests that Canada has produced yet another novelist of the first order." ' VICTORIA DAILY TIMES I spent last weekend reading the Wabeno Feast, reading reviews extolling the imagined virtues of the Wabeno Feast and finally interviewing Wayland Drew of Port Perry author of the Wabaeno Feast. I am proud to report that patriotism is still alive and well in Canada. If it is not then how on earth could this book have earned so many rave reviews. The Wabeno Feast is not the great Canadian novel. It does not grip its reader with such excitement that he is unable to put the book down for fear of missing the next exciting chapter. The prose is no threat to Shakespeare or even Pierre Berton. It will not stir any reader to action over any social problem. But it is Canadian. You should buy it, the reviewers seem to be saying, because it is Canadian and sort of interesting. I'll drink to that. The Wabeno Feast is actually three stories loosely interlapped. Story number one stars Paul and his wife whose child died, the victim of gas escaping from a plant near a school yard, and who escaped the tragedy by canoeing into the wilderness of Northern Ontario. During their trip the couple read the journal of Drummond McKay (the second story), an explorer from the eighteenth century who also spends most of his time in a canoe. Story number three spotlights a scoutmaster, the scoutmasters wife who has unusual morals, and four cursing adolescents he manages to get lost on a canoe trip. Pin all three stories the wilderness is the real hero and industrialization is the villan. The moral is an important one and it is well made. The problem is we have heard that moral in a dozen or more books and seen it every week in T.V. drama and have not been spurred to action. The Wabeno Feast does not make the point much better than these other dramatic sermons. I am not a great fan of fiction, so perhaps I missed something. The House of Anansi saw fit to publish this book. Better qualified reviewers than I are recommend- ing it. So I guess it must be a good book. I am not an expert on modern literature, but like the casual art observer I know what I like. I don't think I would pay $7.50 for a copy of the Wabeno Feast. Crandstand Shows DATE SHOW PRICE Thurs. through Sun. Aug. 16, 17,18, 19 Scottish World Festival Tattoo featuring RCMP Musical Ride $4.00, $5.00 = Mon. through Thurs. Aug. 20, 21, 22, 23 Soviet Red Army } Song & Dance Festival featuring Boris Alexandrov $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 Fri. & Sat. Aug. 24 & 25 James Last $4.50, $5.50, $6.50 with an Orchestra of 60 Musicians Sun., Aug. 26 Guess Who and the Scubleocane $4.50, $5.50, $6.50 Mon. & Tues. 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