All the Years of Her Life | The End Of An Era
In the following essay excerpt, Conron provides overviews of the stories in Now That April’s Here, including ‘‘All the Years of Her Life.’’
Callaghan’s second collection presents thirty-five selected stories written between 1929 and 1935. All of these had already been published in North American magazines except the title piece. It appeared in This Quarter (October–December, 1929) as the result of a bet which Edward Titus made with Callaghan and Robert McAlmon in Paris encouraging both to write a story expressing each’s contrasting views about two young men familiar in the Montparnasse of 1929. McAlmon never did write his story.
‘‘Now That April’s Here’’ comes fourth in the arrangement of the...
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