Clara Callan
Author: Richard B. Wright
Published: 2001
Genre: Fiction
About Clara Callan: The Depression-era lives of Clara and her sister Nora are explored via letters and journal entries.
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Awards
- 2001 Giller Prize – Winner
- 2001 Governor General's Award for Fiction – Winner
Reviews
- Joelle M. d’Entremont, 2002.
- “...a complex, accurate and realistic portrayal of most single women [...] and of the small-town Canada experience...”
- Lorna Jackson, Quill & Quire, September 2001.
- “...a deft and lovely mix of highbrow literature and lowbrow melodrama.”
- ‘Grit and glamour.’ Carol Birch, Guardian Unlimited, 12 October 2002.
- “...a wonderful evocation of place and era, a social history, a meditation on the nature of time when faith is gone.”
Added 21 November 2005.
Updated 30 January 2010.
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