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Please direct your remarks to:
wmesser@thesink.ca
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Breller Books
RR #1, Box 3013 Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada P1P 1R1

Wendel Messer was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and has Lunenburg as well as Newfoundland roots. He attended school in Halifax and Toronto. After earning a B.A. at the University of

Gothenburg, Sweden, and a B.Ed. at the University of Toronto, he taught English as a Second Language and Driver Education. At present he lives in a mobile home near Gravenhurst, Ontario.

Messer’s first book, The Sink: the last days of driving, a satire on the declining culture of the roadway, received superlative reviews, and Messer was invited to read from the book at the Leacock Festival, Orillia, in 2003. In spite of that, he refuses to regard his first book, in which Toronto drivers are executed in the Don Valley Parkway, as primarily a work of humour (or even fiction).

Messer’s second book, The Conquest of Canada, is the story of the first thirty years of a country first mentioned in the annals of history almost half a millenium ago. The story of that country is our story, whatever language we may speak. The novel bears eloquent witness to the author’s interest in history and ideas. The author believes that Canada can be known, understood, and realized only with reference to the past; the dreams of the past hold the clues to our survival as a nation.

VERUS AND THE GRAND ASSEMBLEY OF BELIEVERS, published in September, 2009, is a satire on the GOD delusion and the evils of religion.