When Things Get Worst by Barry Callaghan (18 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. When Things Get Worst is the story of a young woman from a world of horse dealers and stone pickers, religious zealots, and gratuitous killers. It is the evocative tale of those who, having lost everything else, retain their dignity in a declining, often dissolute world.Haunted by death and her local history, by religious ecstatics and cynics of the Word, by the repressed who are raping the countryside, as if farms were no more than gravel orchards, this young woman continues to move forward. In the face of the vengeance that others are wreaking on life, she never loses faith in herself, her family, or in the earth, on whose behalf she finally, in a moment of apocalypse, acts.Sensual and perfectly pitched in its depiction of thought in a language that is specific to the rhythms of southwestern Ontario, When Things Get Worst is a moving, lyrical testimony to the force of the human spirit.…

Condition: Very Good. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. DJ bright with little corner wear, water mark on back cover, back board and fore-dege, else a clean tight copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Flat signed by author on title page. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; Minor wear to d/j at tips, indentation on back of d/j. Striking d/j illustration by Joe Morse. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; The story of a young woman for a world of horse dealers and stone pickers. It is the evocative tale of those who, having lost everything else, retain their dignity in the declining, often dissolute world.…

Condition: New. 2023. paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New. 2023. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Reprint. The book is signed by Barry Callaghan on the full title page also signed by artist Gabriela Campos and signed by Michael Callaghan on the copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: New. Reprint. The book is signed by Barry Callaghan on the full title page also signed by artist Gabriela Campos and signed by Michael Callaghan on the copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, 191pp. Signed by author with inscription on title-page, and owner inscription on verso of half-title. Light rubbing to spine and extremities with some smarkings to cloth, o/w near fine in near fine d/w, with light rubbing to jacket and front inner flap clipped. "The story of a young woman from a world of horse dealers and stone pickers. It is the evoctive tale of those who, having lost everything else, retain their dignity in a declining, often dissolute world.". Signed.…

Paperback. Condition: New. When Things Get Worst is the story of a young woman from a world of horse dealers and stone pickers, religious zealots, and gratuitous killers. It is the evocative tale of those who, having lost everything else, retain their dignity in a declining, often dissolute world.Haunted by death and her local history, by religious ecstatics and cynics of the Word, by the repressed who are raping the countryside, as if farms were no more than gravel orchards, this young woman continues to move forward. In the face of the vengeance that others are wreaking on life, she never loses faith in herself, her family, or in the earth, on whose behalf she finally, in a moment of apocalypse, acts.Sensual and perfectly pitched in its depiction of thought in a language that is specific to the rhythms of southwestern Ontario, When Things Get Worst is a moving, lyrical testimony to the force of the human spirit.…

Condition: New.