Never's Just the Echo of Forever - by Barry Callaghan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This is the story of 29-year-old Albie Starbach, a reclusive man who is the caretaker of a large rooming house, with a day job as a crossing guard. He is a caring man. But he is also a dangerous man...living in a world that to him is threatening because he feels he has been wronged, and he is resentful. <br> He has wired the rooming house with dynamite, and every time he goes out, he sets a timer. He had better get back in time or the house will blow. Often, it is not easy to get back; out on the streets desperado cowboys in the trees talk to him, "working women" taunt him, the police accost him. <br> His only companion is his legless mother who, in a wheelchair in their basement rooms, conducts day-long derisive arguments with the television, as if all those people were alive in her room. Living together at the bottom of their world, mother and son feed each other their rage, their righteous indignation, their sense of moral singularity. Determinedly alone, determinedly wounded, they are embattled, and their story is very much a story of our time, and the world had better watch out because this caretaker is prepared to take everyone with him.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Callaghan is a writer whose style is laced with a biting, satirical outlook on contemporary urban life...by turns funny, morbid, and raunchy, Callaghan's acid flowing prose pulls the reader along effortlessly." --<i>Saskatoon Star Phoenix</i></p><br><br><p>"Callaghan writes with a powerful verve, a seeming abandon and heedlessness which upon closer examination reveals itself to be the result of careful, subtle, and unobtrusive skill and care... [He] doesn't write about characters so much as inhabit them..." --<i>Quill & Quire</i></p><br><br><p>"Callaghan's is an intensely visual and tactile style..." --<i>Boston Globe</i></p><br><br><p>"The final words in <i>All the Lonely People</i>, Barry Callaghan's magisterial collected short fiction, are 'once upon a time.' This would at first appear an odd way to end a volume of close to 500 pages, one that comprises a career-spanning overview of the author's work in this particular genre. But the invocation of an old-world fairy-tale formula tilts in the direction of memory and the past, which is appropriate for the current volume in general and the specific concerns contained in many individual stories." --<i>Toronto Star</i></p><br><br>"His is one of the few story collections I've seen that even begins to pick up from the method of <i>Dubliners</i>. Like Joyce, Callaghan gets so deeply and honestly into the local world that it is the international place we all inhabit." --American critic, M.L. Rosenthal<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Barry Callaghan</b> is the well-known novelist, story writer, poet, and man of letters who has been included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. His acclaimed fiction titles are <i>The Black Queen Stories, The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still a Kiss, Between Trains, Beside Still Waters</i>, and <i>All the Lonely People</i>. His acclaimed nonfiction titles are<i> Barrelhouse Kings, Raise You Five, Raise You Ten</i>, and <i>Raise You On the River</i>.
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