Product Description

Callaghan’s second novel, written while he was living in Paris - imbibing with Joyce and Hemingway - has violence at its core - the story opens with the hanging of an ex-World War One soldier for involuntary murder. But first and foremost it is a story of love, a love haunted by that hanging. "It’s never over," the dead man’s sister says, as she seeks to possess the life of her brother’s closest friend, John Hughes, who - "because a hanging draws everybody into it" - contemplates murder himself. The murder of the sister. But he is no blindly violent Harry Trotter of Callaghan’s first novel, Strange Fugitive - no, Hughes’ deterioration is so subtle and so psychologically suggestive that F. Scott Fitzgerald called It’s Never Over Callaghan’s "death house masterpiece."

Introduction by Norman Snider

Fiction 6"x9"/French Flaps

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3799593 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 170 pages

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.