When Things Get Worst
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2007
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552786604
- Publish Date
- Aug 2007
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
“Finely crafted…rich in folklore and black humour.” –Globe & Mail“A tour de force that defines a time and a place with language alone.” –William Kennedy“…a poetically phrased novel.” –St. John’s Evening Telegram“…a wild tale of murder, suicide, spiritual obsessions and grinding poverty.” –Toronto Star“A wonderful portrait of lovers and losers, drawn with a kind of tender fury.” –Christopher Hope“Callaghan celebrates and luxuriates in language.” –Ottwaw Citizen
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.