
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 16, 1994                   TAG: 9411180123
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

TECH INSTRUCTOR PRESENTS 1ST NOVEL

Simone Poirier-Bures, an English instructor at Virginia Tech, will introduce her first novel, "Candyman," to area readers Friday, at Radford's Gallery Cafe bookstore, at 4:30 p.m.

The novel was printed by Oberon, a Canadian publisher, last month. The autobiographical story is set in the 1950s in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the fictional Charles LeBlanc loses his government job and becomes a candy peddler. It's a traditional profession, but one that is being swept aside by a post-war economic upswing, making it difficult for him to provide the family life his children and wife need.

Memo: NOTE: Please see microfilm for text.

by CNB