The Loved and the Lost

Callaghan, Morley

ISBN 10: 1550961519 / ISBN 13: 9781550961515

Published by Exile Editions, Limited, 2011

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 17126535-75

Synopsis:

Set in the early 1950s in Montreal, this is the story of enigmatic Peggy Sanderson―a woman who has become a socially awkward presence due to her open and casual association with black musicians in Lower Town nightclubs. White and black men assume she must be involved sexually with the musicians, white women are perplexed by her, and black women both fear and loathe her. Yet Peggy’s almost guileless sense of ease is at complete variance with these assumptions and attitudes. When Jim McAlpine, a writer and journalistically engaged intellectual, falls in love with her, lives are ruined and careers are broken. Taking place before the civil rights movement, this tragic story explores race relations with great moral complexity and compassion.

About the Author: 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.

David Staines is a literary critic, award-winning writer, editor, and an English professor at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of the essay collection The Canadian Imagination, editor of the scholarly Journal of Canadian Poetry, and general editor of McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library. He has published a number of major essay collections, including He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Edmund Wilson was an author and one of the most prominent social and literary critics of the 20th century and the recipient of both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal for Literature.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Loved and the Lost
Publisher: Exile Editions, Limited
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good