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To the Loser Go the Spoils

Essays and Anecdotes

by (author) Larry Zolf

introduction by Barry Callaghan

Publisher
Exile Editions
Initial publish date
May 2010
Category
Essays
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550961355
    Publish Date
    May 2010
    List Price
    $21.95

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For forty years, Larry Zolf has been a singular writer of mythical presence, casting an acerbic yet comic eye on fat Senate cats, gigilos, rebbes in air-conditioned synagogues, politicians seeking priaprismatic glory, sheriffs, darktown vigilantes and uptown power brokers. Among the cast of characters: Diefenbaker, Trudeau, Mulroney, Harper,Barbara Frum, Bobby Kennedy, Falk Zholf, Mordechai Richler, Big T. for Tony Imperiale the vigilante, Conrad Black, Dalton Camp, and many more notable figures of low camp and high camp.

About the authors

LARRY ZOLF has been a critic, reporter/producer/consultant, CBC news and current affairs, since 1962.

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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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