Lisa Moore: Just Once, No More
“Charles Foran, at his dying father’s bedside, traces the giant, altering moments and the end-of-day tender ones that shape them both. This is an eyes-open memoir about how we fly apart and come together; about the fierce and gentle hold of fatherhood; about the ways art can make meaning; about love, sadness, and the ties that bind. Elegiac, intimate and honest, this is a beautiful, tender book, so spare and lovely, so full of little diamonds of truth.” Just Once, No More
Yann Martel: Just Once, No More
“A beautiful elegy on the aches of an aging heart. Sad, yes, but in a luminous way, like a flickering, crackling vintage lightbulb. Truly, a book that is wise and moving.”
The Telegraph-Journal: Maurice Richard
“It was a full, rich life, and it’s a full, rich book… We judge a man by his life, a writer by his books. Charles Foran has done a thorough and thoughtful job of the first. Time will do the second.”
Globe and Mail – Mordecai: The Life and Times
“Foran’s biography is based on countless interviews, extensive research and exclusive access to the Richler family correspondence and archives. The result is both thoroughgoing and thoroughly entertaining – more than one critic has noted that Richler’s life reads like a novel – and will surely be the authoritative version for many years to come.”
The Walrus – Mordecai: The Life and Times
“It was a full, rich life, and it’s a full, rich book… We judge a man by his life, a writer by his books. Charles Foran has done a thorough and thoughtful job of the first. Time will do the second.”
Ronald Wright: Join the Revolution, Comrade
“This is a wise and wide-ranging book, an impressive quest through culture, politics, and language. Provocative yet fair-minded, Foran’s REVOLUTION enlists us in the war of thought against cliché.”
The Montreal Gazette: Carolan’s Farewell
Nothing short of stupendous. The brilliance of this fine novel arises from the basic delights of the narrative. It is a wonderful story told with grace and wit, an erudite book, yet thoroughly juicy and often very funny. Considerable research has gone into its making. From political background to the nuances of everyday life, the facts have been woven into vivid dialogue and prose that is sumptious, yet rarely extravagant. … Carolan’s Farewell may well be Charles Foran’s hello to the top ranks of contemporary fiction.
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