To the Loser Go the Spoils
Essays and Anecdotes
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- May 2010
- Category
- Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550961355
- Publish Date
- May 2010
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
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.
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.