The Loved and the Lost

by Morley Callaghan

Book Overview

Winner of the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1951, this deceptively straightforward narrative explores complex and enduringly relevant themes of betrayed innocence and interracial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773673997
• ISBN13: 9780773673991
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Stoddart
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of Callaghan's best works

After reading this book, I have a newfound appreciation for this author. The way he juxtaposes racial segregation with a relationship between two caucasians, one who has a unique fondness for negroes in a very prejudiced 1950's Montreal, leaves readers spellbound. After awhile, you feel as if you are in the book yourself, looking on as the characters and the plot develop. By the time I made it to the climax of the story, i was in tears, and I felt every emotion that the characters in the book felt. This truly is one of Morley Callaghan's best novels, and deserves the governor General's award that it received, if not more than that.