BARRY CALLAGHAN
man of letters
Raise You Five: Essays and Encounters 1964-2004 Volume One
McArthur & Company, 2005
RAISE YOU FIVE is periodic writing about the most complex ideas, rendered in prose of utter ease and clarity–prose from a man who believes all writing, at its best, whether it is a book review or meditation on evil, is a kind of storytelling, and that storytelling is what keeps it alive.
“Unflinching before the harsh complexities of our time, Raise You Five, is, as trumpeted by the Globe and Mail — “Literary criticism and cultural history of a high order, in turn joyous, acerbic, celebratory.”” –Globe and Mail
“If Morley Callaghan was the first Canadian writer to achieve a measure of international recognition, it has been his son’s peculiar genius to carve our a path, both in life and in letters, utterly his own.” –Saturday Night
