Clara Callan
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Initial publish date
- May 2009
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554684809
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $19.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780006392125
- Publish Date
- Aug 2002
- List Price
- $21.95
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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.
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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