All the Lonely People Collected Stories

by Callaghan, Barry; Atwood, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781550967203
• ISBN10: 1550967207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-09-01
• Publisher: Exile Editions

Summary

These are tales told in a variety of voices: street hustlers, priests, blues singers, holocaust survivors, cross-dressers, paramilitary snipers, even those we may euphemistically consider the “ordinary” – all of them authentic, and all would subscribe to the maxim that “happiness is overrated.” The dialogue is true to speech as it is spoken, shot through with humor, piercing sadness and puzzling beauty. To quote the important American critic, M.L. Rosenthal, “His is one of the few story collections I’ve seen that even begins to pick up from the method of Dubliners. Like Joyce, Callaghan gets so deeply and honestly into the local world that it is the international place we all inhabit."

Author Biography

Barry Callaghan, the well-known novelist, poet, and man of letters, is included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. His works include The Black Queen Stories, The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still A Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains, and Beside Still Waters. Margaret Atwood (Preface) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.