Andre Alexis

Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Eighty-five stories by one of Canada's greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan's short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section providing the year of publication for each story, a question-and-answer section, and comprehensive editorial notes. As a whole, this series is essential reading for understanding the growth and importance of Canadian literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Exile Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781550963434
• Artikelnr.: 54189491

Autorenporträt

André Alexis, novelist, playwright, short-story writer (b at Port of Spain, Trinidad 15 January 1957). His first published work of fiction, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994), was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean region). With his inaugural novel, Childhood (1998), Alexis secured his reputation as a burgeoning writer. Winner of the 1998 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award and co-winner of the Trillium Book Award for the same year (which he shared with Alice Munro), this novel was also short-listed for THE GILLER PRIZE and received a variety of other accolades from both national and international sources. Asylum, his most recent novel, was published in 2008 and is set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years. Alexis lives and works in the city of Toronto, where he hosts CBC Radio's Skylarking, reviews books for the Globe and Mail, and acts as a contributing editor for This Magazine. Morley Callaghan was a novelist and short story writer. He is the author of numerous books, including A Literary Life, The New Yorker Stories, Such Is My Beloved, and That Summer in Paris. He is the recipient of the Governor General's Award and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. André Alexis is the host of the CBC Radio show Skylarking and is a contributing editor at This Magazine. He is the author of Asylum, Childhood, and Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa and is the recipient of the Commonwealth Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Giller Prize. He lives in Toronto. Morley Callaghan, 1903 - 1990. He attended St. Michael's College, University of Toronto from 1921-5, and participated in a wide variety of extra-curricular activities including working part-time for the Toronto Star Weekly where he met Earnest Hemmingway, who became an early mentor. Although he completed a law degree in 1928, Callaghan's first love was writing. Callaghan's first novel, Strange Fugitive, appeared in 1928. In 1929, he signed with a publishing house in New York to produce his first collection of short stories, A Native Argosy. He married and sailed to France, where he socialized with Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce in Paris. During a friendly boxing match with Hemmingway he knocked out the American novelist, and as a result their friendship was never the same. Callaghan was heavily influenced by American naturalist literature, apparent in such novels as It's Never Over (1930) and A Broken Journey (1932). His most commercially popular book came in 1934 with Such is My Beloved. He followed with They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935), Now That April's Here and Other Stories (1936) and More Joy in Heaven (1937). These books, with their Christian theological themes, complex characterizations, and ambiguous treatment of love, established Callaghan as an important figure in North American literary circles. The war saw his financial success wane, and he began to work once again as a professional writer. He wrote for newspapers and radio in order to support his wife and two sons. He felt that his inspiration was beginning to falter. But after three deaths of close family members, Callaghan once again turned to the redemptive power of literature. In the 1950s and 1960s, Callaghan involved himself in many aspects of writing, including working with the Writer's Union. In 1951, he finally won a Governor-General's Award for The Loved and the Lost. He also wrote That Summer in Paris (1963), a memoir of his summer in Paris in 1929. The war saw his financial success wane, and he began to work once again as a professional writer. He wrote for newspapers and radio in order to support his wife and two sons. He felt that his inspiration w...