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Fiction Literary

Clara Callan

by (author) Richard B. Wright

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Initial publish date
May 2009
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554684809
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $19.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780006392125
    Publish Date
    Aug 2002
    List Price
    $21.95
  • Audio disc

    ISBN
    9780864923394
    Publish Date
    Aug 2003
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

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.

About the author

The author of nine novels, Richard Wright has been published in Canada, the United States, and the U.K. His novel, The Middle of Life, won the city of Toronto Book Award and the Faber Award, and his novel, The Age Of Longing was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. He lives, writes, and teaches in St. Catherines, Ontario.

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Editorial Reviews

?By the end of the book, Clara Callan seems beyond authorial creation'she seems a living, breathing human being.?

(The Globe and Mail)

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