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It's 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 and Nora, 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. A brilliantly realized, deeply moving novel, Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction.
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Clara Callan, Richard Bruce Wright
- Language
- Released
- 2002
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Damaged
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- €7.18
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- Title
- Clara Callan
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Bruce Wright
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial Canada
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 414
- ISBN10
- 0006392121
- ISBN13
- 9780006392125
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Contemporary Fiction, New York, Canada, Sisters, Canadian Literature, North America, 1930s, Epistolary Novels
- Description
- It's 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 and Nora, 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. A brilliantly realized, deeply moving novel, Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction.