The Loved and the Lost (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Morley Callaghan
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: Montreal, Canada
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Culture, Freedom, Self-discovery, Journalism or journalists, Racism, Blacks, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Music or musicians, 1940’s, Religion, Canada or Canadians, Publishing or publishers, Advertising
- Locales: Montreal, Canada
Characters Discussed
James McAlpine, a former Navy lieutenant commander and a history professor at the University of Toronto in his early thirties. A magazine article he writes, titled “The Independent Man,” leads Joseph Carver to invite him to Montreal to write a triweekly column for the Sun. In Montreal, the normally pragmatic and conventional Jim comes under the spell of Peggy Sanderson, and his desire to understand, protect, reform, and possess her becomes an obsession that overshadows both his initial attraction to Catherine Carver and his wish to achieve status...
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