Callaghan, Barry
Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir
Toronto, McArthur & Company, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 578. Royal 8vo. Light brown boards, gilt lettering to the spine; pictorial endpapers. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws, bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in fine dustjacket. Barrelhouse Kings is the unique story of two Canadian writers, each well-known in his own way: Morley Callaghan and his son, Barry Callaghan. It is a stunningly written recollection of the world in which Barry Callaghan grew up—the world that was Morley’s milieu as a writer and became Barry’s as their lives dovetailed. Peopled with many unforgettable characters, this is an autobiography that will stand the test of time.
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Keywords: canadian literature; canadian history; biography; autobiography; literary biography