They Shall Inherit the Earth Paperback by Morley Callaghan

Product Details

• Publisher: New Canadian Library (2009-01-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 360 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780771093630
• Item Weight: 317.52 grams
• Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.13 x 0.67 cm

First published in 1935, this novel is a penetrating study of a father and son caught in the moral and economic undertow of the Great Depression. The action hinges upon a sudden mischance in which accident and intention tragically coincide. Swept along by the inexorable logic of events, Callaghan’s protagonists are forced to re-examine the nature of individual conscience and responsibility. In their personal struggle is expressed the mood of the age, its cynicism and anger, its desperate idealism, and its agonized longing for redemption.

About the Author

Morley Callaghan’s literary circle included Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce. In a career spanning more than six decades, he published sixteen novels and more than one hundred works of short fiction.