That Summer in Paris - Hardcover

Callaghan, Morley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550965522 ISBN 13: 9781550965520

Publisher: Exile Editions, 2002

Synopsis

Memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and some others.

It was the fabulous Summer of 1929, when the literary capital of North America had moved to Paris. Hemingway was reading proofs to A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away Fitzgerald was struggling over Tender Is the Night. And Morley Callaghan, his first book published to acclaim in New York, arrived in Paris to share the felicities of the literary life, not just with his two friends, but with James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Robert McAlmon - the world Gertrude Stein called the Lost Generation. Amidst these tangled relationships, friendships were lost, too - most particularly between Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Callaghan - all over the famous boxing match in which the smaller Callaghan knocked Hemingway down and Fitzgerald, the time keeper - stunned by what he was seeing - forgot to call time. A tragic and sad and unforgettable story told in Callaghan's lucid compassionate prose.

Fiction 6"x9"

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Toronto in 1903, Morley Callaghan graduated from the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He was called to the bar in 1928 but he never practiced law. Although he travelled widely, and lived in Paris for some time during the golden years of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Callaghan spent most of his life in Toronto producing fifteen novels, a memoir and streams of short stories. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and in Canada received a host of honours, including the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He died in 1990.

Review:

"If there is a better story writer in the world we don't know where he is."  —The New York Times

"His unobtrusive art is more subtle and his intelligence more mature than those of either [Hemingway or Fitzgerald]. Callaghan's book will surprise and shock the Hemingway fans."  —Edmund Wilson

About this edition

• Publisher: Exile Editions
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1550965522
• ISBN 13: 9781550965520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250