More Joy in Heaven Paperback by Morley Callaghan, Afterword by Margaret Avison Afterword by Margaret Avison

Product Details

• Publisher: New Canadian Library (2009-07-21)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771093814
• Item Weight: 170.1 grams
• Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.6 cm

Based on a real-life character, More Joy in Heaven is a gripping account of the tragic plight of young Kip Caley, a notorious bank-robber released early from prison and feted by society as a returning prodigal son.

At first earnest, optimistic, and ready for reform, Kip eventually comes to realize that his supporters’ charity is driven by self-interest.

More Joy in Heaven was first published in 1937.

About the Author

MORLEY CALLAGHAN was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1903. A graduate of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Law School, he was called to the bar in 1928, the same year that his first novel, Strange Fugitive, was published. Fiction commanded his attention, and he never practised law. While in university, Callaghan took a summer position at the Toronto Star when Ernest Hemingway was a reporter there. In April 1929, he travelled with his wife to Paris, where their literary circle of friends included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce. That Summer in Paris is his memoir of the time. The following autumn, Callaghan returned to Toronto. Callaghan was among the first writers in Canada to earn his livelihood exclusively from writing. In a career that spanned more than six decades, he published sixteen novels and more than a hundred shorter works of fiction. Usually set in the modern city, his fiction captures the drama of ordinary lives as people struggle against a background of often hostile social forces. Morley Callaghan died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1990.