The Ben Calder Story
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[quote style=”boxed”]A single vision encompasses these people in all their self-contradictions, betrayals, nobility, bewilderment . . . every pattern leads out into a larger atmosphere of mercy and wonder.” —Margaret Avison[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]The story poses in opposition disinterested love and practical use and teaches how ‘love’ must be flawed by ‘use,’ and how love must be preserved in a world set to destroy it.” —Commonwealth Literature[/quote]
A novel that probes the heart of the contemporary malaise: how a man without faith navigates through the moral and ethical dilemmas of modern life. Ben Calder, an artist teaching at one of Canada’s oldest independent girl’s schools, is beginning to unravel. In October a girl arrives at the school from Italy. Her mother and Ben were in love in high school and when the mother arrives in Toronto for her daughter’s eighteenth birthday, the daughter’s jealousy precipitates Ben’s fall.
The Ben Calder Story completes the Toronto Trilogy, which includes The Family Man and The Good Friend – Zeifman’s two previously published novels. A novella, Peripheral Vision, is also in print.
Stephen Zeifman of Canada is the autor of three novels: The Family Man, The Good Friend and The Ben Calder Story, and a novella, Peripheral Vision. He is also an exhibiting photographer, and a teacher at Toronto’s Bishop Strachan Girl’s School.
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