{"product_id":"temerity-gall-paperback","title":"Temerity \u0026 Gall - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Metcalf's] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.\"--Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTemerity \u0026amp; Gall\u003c\/i\u003e, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a 1983 editorial letter to the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that \"Mr. Metcalf--an immigrant--continually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature.\" Forty years later, in spite of Kinsella's effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about literature in Canada. Part memoir, meditation, and apologia, part criticism and pure Metcalf, the present volume distills a lifetime of reading and writing, thinking and collecting, and continues his necessary work kicking against the ever-present pricks. As is the case with all of his critical work, \u003ci\u003eTemerity \u0026amp; Gall \u003c\/i\u003ewill challenge, delight, anger, and inspire in equal measure, and is essential reading for anyone interested in literature in Canada and its place within the wider tradition of writing in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTemerity \u0026amp; Gall\u003cem\u003e is printed in a limited paperback edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Metcalf\u003c\/b\u003e has been one of the leading editors in Canada for more than five decades, editing more than two hundred books over this time, including eighteen volumes of the \u003cem\u003eBest Canadian Stories\u003c\/em\u003e anthology. He is also the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eFinding Again the World: Selected Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eVital Signs: Collected Novellas\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Museum at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e. Senior Fiction Editor at Biblioasis, he lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 488\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.34 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186180440313,"sku":"9781771964494","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TkpHUzg2T3BzRGxOMVN5WU1ZQ2hkdz09.webp?v=1767830693","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/temerity-gall-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}