More Joy in Heaven

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Title More Joy in Heaven
Recent paperback edition cover
Author Morley Callaghan
Country Canada
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Random House
Released 1937
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 278 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN NA
Preceded by Now That April's Here and Other Stories
Followed by Luke Baldwin's Vow

More Joy in Heaven is a novel written by Canadian author Morley Callaghan and published in 1937. The central figure, Kip Caley, was inspired by Norman "Red" Ryan (1895-1936), a criminal who had committed a number of robberies in Quebec, Ontario and the United States.

Callaghan's friend Ernest Hemingway had also considered writing a novel based on Ryan's life. As a reporter for The Toronto Daily Star, Hemingway had covered the criminal in 1925.

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Powerful and moving Story of an Ex-Criminal's struggle for regeneration.

[edit] Reference

Brian Busby, Character Parts: Who's Really Who in Canlit, Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. ISBN 0-676-97579-8