Earth and High Heaven (New Canadian Library No. 13) - Graham, Gwenthalyn

Clean, tight, unmarked; age tanned; corner of ffep clipped; creasing close to spine of front cover; wear to bottom front corner of cover; a couple of very small scrapes to spine; spine is uncreased; This stirring and controversial book caused a sensation when it was first published in 1944. Time has not diminished its power, because it is much more than just the story of two remarkable young people, deeply in love, who come close to being destroyed by the prejudices of the "polite" Canadian society in which they live. As Eli Mandel says in his introduction "... our own continual snickering about class, position and race gives her [Miss Graham's] theme of anti-semitism new urgent relevance..."
Good
Mass Market Paperback
McClelland & Stewart
1969
Toronto. ON