Temerity and Gall.by Metcalf New 9781771964494 Fast Free Shipping**

Name: Temerity and Gall.by Metcalf New 9781771964494 Fast Free Shipping**
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\u201C[Metcalf\u2019s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.\u201D\u2014Washington Post\nIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.\nIn a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that \u201CMr. Metcalf\u2014an immigrant\u2014continually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature.\u201D Forty years later, in spite of Kinsella\u2019s effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about\n\nTemerity & Gall\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\;