The Storms Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh Garner

By Paul Stuewe

Hugh Garner was a hard-drinking, opinionated tough guy who fought with editors, publishers and everyone else he considered part of the Establishment. Yet beneath this brash, angry exterior, Garner was a writer of sensitive short stories and a novel, Cabbagetown , that has become a Canadian classic. Garner's stories were drawn from his own rough, adventurous life, a life portrayed in all its wildness and pathos in The Storms Below . From an impoverished childhood in Toronto's working-class Cabbagetown to his time riding the rails in the Depression, from the Spanish Civil War to the Royal Canadian Navy, from youthful radicalism to cantakerous, middle-aged conservatism, Paul Stuewe chronicles the many passages of Garner's controversial career. A definitive biography of a unique Canadian writer, drawing on extensive interviews with Garner's family, friends and colleagues, The Storms Below has the excitement and emotional impacy of a good novel.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155028150X
• ISBN13: 9781550281507
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"