London Free Press
Trim, attractive and lavishly illustrated.
Book Description
In this biography of Morley Callaghan, Gary Boire celebrates the life of one of the world's most prolific writers. Author of over twenty novels and a hundred short stories, Callaghan enjoyed a glorious career of international recognition and respect. His coterie of friends included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce. His admirers have called him a "professional contrarian, an inveterate counter-puncher." Critics have described him as an "intellectual/personal/literary harlequin." Although a man of contradictions, he was consistent in one thing: be it as novelist, journalist, lawyer, playwright, amateur boxer, sports commentator, or social critic, Callaghan was always engaged with his world.
About the Author
Gary Boire teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of several works on Canadian writers and AUTHOR: Boire, Gary
Morley Callaghan: Literary Anarchist FROM THE PUBLISHER
This illustrated [biography] gives a new picture of one of Canada's most important and prolific writers, and addresses Edmund Wilson's claim that Callaghan has been "the most unjustly neglected novelist in the English-speaking world." [canada]
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