Earth and High Heaven

by Gwethalyn Graham

Overview

When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834146071
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	06/26/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	318,880
File size:	247 KB

About the Author

Gwethalyn Grahamwas born January 18, 1913 in Toronto, Ontario. At the age of 25, in 1938, she won her first Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction for her novel Swiss Sonata. After Earth and High Heaven, Graham wrote for Saturday Night, Chatelaine, and for film and television, and completed a collection of letters with Solange Chaput Roland titled Dear Enemies (1963). Graham died in 1965.

Editorial Reviews

“It's startling and chastening to read of women in the 1940s who seem as liberated as any woman today.”

Montreal Gazette

“A powerful testament against prejudice that is more telling for the time in which it was written.”

Victoria Times Colonist

“The past few years have brought a number of novels that are honest, deeply felt, and extremely readable. This is a novelty. The greatest success has gone to Gwethalyn Graham's Earth and High Heaven. And that competent and passionately sincere study of race prejudice deserves all the popular approval it won.”

E.K. Brown

“Deserves to be read and discussed with other classic Canadian novels.”

Canadian Jewish News

“In a country that barely remembers its prime ministers, it's hardly surprising that one of CanLit's brightest early stars is almost forgotten. But Cormorant Books' reprint of the 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven should bring back to prominence the extraordinary Gwethalyn Graham, who published two novels in her short life (1913 to 1965) and won the Governor General's award for both.”

Maclean's

“Earth And High Heaven, published in 1944, when its author was just 31, ripped the veil off Canada's genteel anti-semitism with its story of a young woman from an upper crust Anglo family in Westmount who falls in love with a Jewish lawyer her father forbids her to marry.”

The Toronto Star

“A great read.”

The Globe and Mail