Set in the early 1950s in Montreal, this is the story of enigmatic Peggy Sandersona 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 Peggys 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.
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Weight: 386g
Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 28 Feb 2011
Publisher: Exile Editions
Publication City/Country: Canada
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781550961515
About CallaghanMorley Callaghan
Morley Callaghan was a novelist and short story writer. He is the author of numerous books including A Literary Life The New Yorker Stories Such Is My Beloved and That Summer in Paris. He is the recipient of the Governor Generals Award and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.David Staines is a literary critic award-winning writer editor and an English professor at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of the essay collection The Canadian Imagination editor of the scholarly Journal of Canadian Poetry and general editor of McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library. He has published a number of major essay collections including He lives in Ottawa Ontario.Edmund Wilson was an author and one of the most prominent social and literary critics of the 20th century and the recipient of both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal for Literature.