num_pages: 414
description: It's the late 1930s and two sisters, Clara and Nora Callan, face the future with both hope and uncertainty. Clara, a 30ish schoolteacher who lives in small-town Ontario, longs for love and adventure. Nora, her flighty and very pretty younger sister, escapes to the excitement of New York, where she lands a starring role in a radio soap and becomes a minor celebrity. In a world of Depression and at a time when war clouds are gathering, the sisters struggle within the web of social expectations for young women.Clara and Nora, sisters so different yet so inextricably linked, face the future in their own ways, discovering the joys of love, the price of infidelity, and the capacity for sorrow lurking beneath the surface of everyday experience. A brilliantly realized, deeply moving novel, Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction.
language: English
title: Clara Callan: A Novel
titlecomplete: Clara Callan: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Historical, Canadian Literature, Book Club, Canada, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 9058
places: Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Trillium Book Award
publisher: HarperPerennialCanada