Clara Callan (50 page)

Richard B. Wright
, is the author of nine novels, including
The Age of Longing
,
The Weekend Man
and
In the Middle of a Life
. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife Phyllis.

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ALSO BY RICHARD B. WRIGHT

The Weekend Man
In the Middle of a Life
Farthing’s Fortunes
Final Things
The Teacher’s Daughter
Tourists
Sunset Manor
The Age of Longing

Front cover painting: Tamara de Lempicka, The Orange Scarf (1927) © estate of Tamara de Lempicka/SODRAC (Montreal) 2001

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

CLARA CALLAN
. Copyright © 2001 by Richard Wright All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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“Hero of the Humdrum” copyright © 2001 by John Bemrose. Reprinted with permission.

EPub © Reader Edition v 1. SEPTEMBER 2002 ISBN: 9780061740459

Print edition first published in 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

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