Fiction Anthologies (multiple Authors)
The Exile Book of Toronto Stories
Toronto Stories
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors), General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550962475
- Publish Date
- Oct 2011
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
Cities are made to exist in your imagination by storytellers – think of Joyce and his Dublin, Dickens and his London, Dostoevsky and his St. Petersburg – and you realize that what is theirs forever is also yours for the taking. Or, as Morley Callaghan wrote after he had first stepped off the train at Gare du nord: “I thought I recognized everything. I already knew the place, I was at home, in my mind Paris was my city, too. Balzac and Maupassant had told me all about it.”
Toronto is now such a city. Writers are telling readers all about it because there is a lot to tell. The city is beginning to exist in the imagination because remarkable writers have made it theirs and in making it theirs, they have made it yours: Margaret Atwood, David Bezmozgis, Morley Callaghan, Joseph Boyden, Austin Clarke, Elizabeth Phinney, Barbara Gowdy, Claudia Dey, Lisa Foad, Margaret Gibson, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Katherine Govier, Leon Rooke, Barry Callaghan, Dionne Brand, and many more.
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.
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