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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT JACKET PHOTO: Barry Callaghan and the family dog Maize, 123 Walmer Road, 1943. BACK JACKET PHOTOS: top left: Loretto Callaghan, 1929; top right: Morley Callaghan, 1929; middle: Tom Callaghan's CNR pass, photos of Tom and Mary (Minn), 1943; bottom left: Morley writing at his desk, 123 Walmer Road, 1949; bottom right: Barry (right) on St. Peter's baseball team, Christie Pits, 1949. JACKET PHOTOS PROVIDED BY: Barry Callaghan. SYNOPSIS: This brilliantly written memoir is about two writers, a father and son. Barry Callaghan writes with great elegance and wit about the joys and travails of growing up in a writerly family, with a father, Morley, who was one of Canada's best loved authors. Barrelhouse Kings begins in the Callaghan house in Toronto, and ends with Morley's death. It's a picture of the world in which Barry grew up: his mother, brother, and grandparents; the neighbours and the town itself...the world that was Morley's milieu as a writer and that became Barry's as he began to write and their lives dove-tailed. The reader moves seamlessly through Morley's coming of age as a young writer (based on letters from Ezra Pound, Hemingway, Max Perkins et al that Barry has found since his father's death) and Barry's own coming of age; Morley's interest in criminal saints and Barry's in saintly criminals; the father's years in Paris and Rome and the son's in the same cities. This memoir is a book about story tellers and their barrelhouse kings and queens, told as a story-rich in character, amusing, and riveting. Barry Callaghan, author and poet, teaches contemporary literature at York University in Toronto. Callaghan was the winner of the inaugural W. O. Mitchell Award in June 1998, and had been recognized with seven National magazine Awards for Journalism, as well as the Toronto Arts Award. His works include Hogg: The Poems and Drawings; The Black Queen Stories; When Things Get Worst and A Kiss is Still a Kiss, all available from McArthur & Company. His writing has been published around the world and translated in seven languages. Callaghan, the publisher of Exile and Exile Editions, lives in Toronto with the artist Claire Weissman Wilks. AWARDS: 1997 W. O. Mitchell Award.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1552780007. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.50 inches; 578 pages.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 1552780007. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Signed by author on title page.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed by Author.
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Very Good/Very Good. 1552780007 The book is in near perfect condition. Dust jacket shows very light wear. 578 pages. End papers are decorated with photographs.