Clara Callan
By Richard B. Wright
Harper Collins Publishers - October 2002
ISBN: 0-06-050606-7
Fiction
Reviewed by Susan
Johnson, MyShelf.Com
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Richard Wright is author
of the year and Clara Callan is fiction book of the year in Canada
along with a multitude of other awards. This book, Clara Callan,
stayed on the Canadian bestseller list at number 1 for over 32 weeks.
Clara Callan is a wonderfully deep and moving story of two sisters,
living in the early 1930's. This was a time when the world was on the
brink of a war and the Depression was going on. These two sisters, Clara
and Nora were both raised in a small town in Ontario, Canada. Clara chooses
to stay there and become what at that time was considered a spinster school
teacher. Nora, the outwardly-seeming adventurous one, travels to New York
and becomes a radio soap opera actress and quickly gains a measure of
fame.
Both sisters face many tough decisions and events in their life. The reader
is treated to a peek inside both lives through a series of letters and
pages from each sister's personal diary.
Clara Callan was immensely readable and enjoyable. I had to stop
and wonder how a male writer managed to capture the complexities and emotions
of the female soul so well.
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