The Loved and The Lost
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Exile Classics Series – Number Seventeen
[quote style=”boxed”]With the publication of this Governor General’s Award-winning novel, Callaghan truly staked his claim in the field of Canadian fiction.”[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]One of Morley Callaghan’s most successful novels…admired and enjoyed as an urban thriller and affecting love story.”[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Morley Callaghan broke new ground when he published this novel dealing with race relations in a major city with thrilling and unforgettable prose… Rich language, frequent comparisons and memorable metaphors make The Loved and the Lost Callaghan’s best work.”-[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]A very fine novel. Absolutely one of the best of North American writers.” – San Francisco Chronicle[/quote]
To be compared with Chekhov, to be compared with Turgenev, that’s what the greatest man of American letters of our time, Edmund Wilson, said when this Morley Callaghan masterpiece appeared in the early fifties.
With the story in Montreal, young Peggy Sanderson has become socially unacceptable because of her association with black musicians in nightclubs. The black men think she must be involved sexually, the black women fear or loathe her, yet her direct, almost spiritual manner is at variance with her reputation. A socially acceptable Jim McAlpine falls under the sway of her personality; he becomes fascinated by her quest, he falls in love, and as a consequence lives are ruined and careers broken, yet overall the feel of charity that is a hallmark of Callaghan’s tone overrides this terrible tragic story.
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