Globe & Mail
"An important new voice...No one writes quite like this."

Quarry Mgazine
"This guy's stuff is relentlessly good."

David Ingham, Event
"A collide-oscope of bars and music, incessant music, and beat-up vehicles, and bruising, frustrating, losing hockey ..."

Book Description
'Salvage King, Ya! is the debut novel from Journey Prize Finalist Mark Anthony Jarman. A gritty, down-to-earth story of an almost-got-to-the-NHL player's last few years in the minors. Drinkwater is a tough-mouthed romantic skidding through the tail-end of his 30s on a high-octane journey of self-actualization. Luminous. Roving. Lyrical. Funny.

About the Author
5-Time Journey Prize Nominee. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Fellow at Yaddo artists' colony in New York, Mark Jarman's work has appeared in numerous Canadian and American literary journals. Publication credits include Queen's Quarterly, Prism International, sub-TERRAIN, Hawaii Review, Prairie Fire and Quarterly West (Univ of Utah). Previous books include a short story collection, 'Dancing Nightly in the Tavern' (Alberta Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction) and a colledtion of poetry, 'Killing the Swan'. Mr. Jarman also edited a book of alcohol-related stories, 'Ounce of Cure'. He has had a story selected for inclusion in Best Canadian Short Stories 1997. Recently he has published a new short story collection '19 Knives' (Anansi). He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.