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Barrelhouse Kings

A Memoir

by (author) Barry Callaghan

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781552780008
    Publish Date
    Sep 1998
    List Price
    $29.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552781005
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $17.95

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BARRELHOUSE KINGS is the unique story of two Canadian writers, each well-known in his own way: Morley Callaghan and his son, Barry Callaghan. It is a stunningly written recollection of the world in which Barry Callaghan grew up—the world that was Morley’s milieu as a writer and became Barry’s as their lives dovetailed. Peopled with many unforgettable characters, this is an autobiography that will stand the test of time.

About the author

BARRY CALLAGHAN founded the internationally celebrated literary quarterly, Exile, and imprint, Exile Editions, while he was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. He is a novelist, poet and journalist and his work has been much anthologized. His numerous awards include Toronto’s One Hundred Outstanding Citizens Award, the inaugural W. Mitchell Award and the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters Award for Fiction which he was honoured with twice.

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