The Loved and the Lost
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2011
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550961515
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $21.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550413021
- Publish Date
- May 1995
- List Price
- $25.00
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Description
Set in the early 1950s in Montreal, this is the story of enigmatic Peggy Sanderson?a woman who has become a socially awkward presence due to her open and casual association with black musicians in Lower Town nightclubs. White and black men assume she must be involved sexually with the musicians, white women are perplexed by her, and black women both fear and loathe her. Yet Peggy’s almost guileless sense of ease is at complete variance with these assumptions and attitudes. When Jim McAlpine, a writer and journalistically engaged intellectual, falls in love with her, lives are ruined and careers are broken. Taking place before the civil rights movement, this tragic story explores race relations with great moral complexity and compassion.
About the authors
Morley Callaghan was the author of fifteen novels, including A Time for Judas, It's Never Over, The Loved and the Lost, and Such Is My Beloved. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received a host of honours in Canada, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
Morley Callaghan's profile page
Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, David Staines specializes in medieval literature and culture and Canadian literature and culture. In the former, he has published Tennyson’s Camelot: The Idylls of the King and Its Medieval Sources, and translated The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes; in the latter, he published The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, The Forty-Ninth and Other Parallels: Contemporary Canadian Perspectives, and The Letters of Stephen Leacock. He has also edited volumes on Morley Callaghan, Stephen Leacock and Margaret Laurence, and co-edited volumes of the writings of Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan. A long-time friend of Carol Shields, he wrote Carol Shields: Cultural Context, a part of Library and Archives Canada’s Web exhibition Canadian Writers.
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Such Is My Beloved
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Luke Baldwin's Vow
The Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan
Volume Three
Ancient Lineage and Other Stories
Strange Fugitive
It's Never Over
White Narcissus
More Joy in Heaven
They Shall Inherit the Earth
Morley Callaghan: Essays, Reviews, Meditations and Talks
1928–1990
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Essayist, Novelist, Poet
The Worlds of Carol Shields
Selected Letters of Stephen Leacock (Kobo)
Tennyson’s Camelot
The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources
My Financial Career and Other Follies
Elements of Literature
Canadian Edition
Selected Letters of Stephen Leacock
Understanding Me
Lectures and Interviews
Northrop Frye on Canada
Margaret Laurence
Critical Reflections
