Earth and High Heaven at Cormorant Books

Earth and High Heaven

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Winner of the 1944 Governor General's Literary Award For Fiction.

Earth and High Heaven is, simply, a drama of human relationships — of two people in love who are confronted by the obstacle of racial intolerance — presented with such cutting truth, such fidelity to life, such compassion and understanding, that their problem becomes, indelibly, the reader's own. With rare perceptiveness, Gwethalyn Graham takes the reader into the lives of Erica Drake and Marc Reiser, whose two worlds are separated by families and conventions. Here is the story of a man and woman who dared earth and high heaven to make their vision real.

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"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." - Macleans

"Earth and High Heaven deserves to be read and discussed with other classic Canadian novels."
— The Canadian Jewish News

"Earth and High Heaven is a powerful testament against prejudice that is more telling for the time in which it was written." — Victoria Times Colonist

"It’s a great read." — The Globe and Mail

"It's startling and chastening to read of women in the 1940s who seem as liberated as any woman today."
— The Montreal Gazette

"... 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

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