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The
2003 Award
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Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: HarperCollins ISBN 0002005018 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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is the late 1930s and two sisters, Clara and Nora Callan, face the future
with both hope and uncertainty. Clara, a 30ish schoolteacher who lives in
small-town Ontario, longs for love and adventure. Nora, her flighty and
very pretty younger sister, escapes to the excitement of New York, where
she lands a starring role in a radio soap and becomes a minor celebrity.
In a world of Depression and at a time when war clouds are gathering, the
sisters struggle within the web of social expectations for young women.
Clara Callan takes us inside the hearts and minds of these characters, as if we were eavesdropping on their conversations. The sisters, so different yet so inextricably linked, face the future in their own ways, discovering the joys of love, the price of infidelity, and the capacity for sorrow lurking beneath the surface of everyday experience. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Richard B. Wright lives in St. Catherines's, Ontario with his wife. He is the author of eight previous novels. In the Middle of Life won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Faber Award. The Age of Longing was nominated for both the Giller Prize and a Governor General's Award. Clara Callan won both the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious prizes in 2002. |
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