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Richard B. Wright’s celebrated novel is the powerful and moving story of two small-town sisters and their life-changing experiences on the eve of the Second World War.Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award.
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"A master story-teller." -- The Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
"A classic page-turner." -- Quill & Quire
"Entertaining." -- Boston Globe
"Mr. Wright writes with the apparent ease of breathing, and he is both touching and very very funny."--New York Times (on THE AGE OF LONGING)
"A compelling narrative and characters that brim with humanity."--Winnipeg Free Press
"A near-perfect miniature: precisely written, true in voice and setting."--Toronto Star (on THE AGE OF LONGING)
"An amazing feat [that] remind some readers of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop."--Publishers Weekly
"A compelling story of perseverance and quiet triumph."--Washington Post
"A classic page-turner."--Quill & Quire
"Entertaining."--Boston Globe
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"A classic page-turner." -- Quill & Quire
"Entertaining." -- Boston Globe
"Mr. Wright writes with the apparent ease of breathing, and he is both touching and very very funny."--New York Times (on THE AGE OF LONGING)
"A compelling narrative and characters that brim with humanity."--Winnipeg Free Press
"A near-perfect miniature: precisely written, true in voice and setting."--Toronto Star (on THE AGE OF LONGING)
"An amazing feat [that] remind some readers of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop."--Publishers Weekly
"A compelling story of perseverance and quiet triumph."--Washington Post
"A classic page-turner."--Quill & Quire
"Entertaining."--Boston Globe
A brilliant depiction of a world caught on the brink of change, 'Clara Callan' is a subtle but shocking examination of loneliness, loss of faith and courage against the odds.
It is the late 1930's in Canada, era of the Great Depression. Clara Callan leads a quiet, unremarkable life as a respectable, small-town schoolteacher. Her sister Nora, flightier, prettier, has escaped into the glamour and excitement of New York where she has landed a star role in a radio soap opera.
But Clara's sensible façade belies her passion for love and adventure, and events prove much less predictable than she could ever have imagined. Her dark and fraught journey from innocence to experience, negotiating the pre-Pill, pre-liberation difficulties that then faced all young women, tests her strength and resolve to the limit – and comes to prove that the two sisters have more in common than they thought possible.
Winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor-General's Award for Fiction – Canada's two pre-eminent literary prizes – 'Clara Callan' is a novel of extraordinary power and profundity.
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- PublisherHarpercollins Canada
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1554684803
- ISBN 13 9781554684809
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- Number of pages414
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