The Storms Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh GarnerHugh Garner was a hard-drinking, opinionated tough guy who fought with editors, publishers and everyone else he considered part of the Establishment. Yet beneath this brash, angry exterior, Garner was a writer of sensitive short stories and a novel, Cabbagetown, that has become a Canadian classic. Garner's stories were drawn from his own rough, adventurous life, a life portrayed in all its wildness and pathos in The Storms Below. From an impoverished childhood in Toronto's working-class Cabbagetown to his time riding the rails in the Depression, from the Spanish Civil War to the Royal Canadian Navy, from youthful radicalism to cantakerous, middle-aged conservatism, Paul Stuewe chronicles the many passages of Garner's controversial career. A definitive biography of a unique Canadian writer, drawing on extensive interviews with Garner's family, friends and colleagues, The Storms Below has the excitement and emotional impacy of a good novel. |
Contents
On His Own and Down and Out 19291936 | 24 |
Spain and Radical Politics 19361939 | 49 |
At War in the Atlantic 19391945 | 72 |
Reckoning with Toronto 19451952 | 91 |
Selling Everything You Write 19521957 | 113 |
The Plays the Thing 19571962 | 135 |
Awards and Alarums 19621968 | 157 |
One Damn Thing After Another 19681973 | 178 |
An Inspector Calls 19731979 | 201 |
Epilogue | 223 |
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