The Gates of McGill: An Unpublished Novel of the 1920's by "Dink" Carroll

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The Gates of McGill: An Unpublished Novel of the 1920's by "Dink" Carroll
Abstract
Austen (Dink) Carroll (1899-1991), a graduate of McGill University's Law School in 1923, was a well-known Montreal sportswriter from the 1940s to the 1980s. Early in his career, he also wrote fiction. The author quotes and summarizes Carroll's unpublished novel about student life at McGill University in the 1920s placing the story within its McGill context and the college novel genre. In his novel of a McGill student's rites of passage, Carroll combined experience with invention. Against a realistically drawn McGill and Montreal background, Peter, the novel's protagonist, goes through the archetypal experiences of many North American university students in the 1920s. He plays football, lives in a fraternity, cuts classes, discovers campus intellectuals and the world of ideas, and Montreal's taverns, brothels and bustling international port. Carroll left his partly autobiographical novel unfinished; the author suggests a nonfictional conclusion in the form of a postscript about Dink Carroll's career after graduation.
Publication
Fontanus
Volume
Vol. 11
Pages
12-60
Date
2003
Language
en
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Citation
Michel, Robert H. “The Gates of McGill: An Unpublished Novel of the 1920’s by ‘Dink’ Carroll.” Fontanus Vol. 11 (2003): 12–60. http://fontanus.mcgill.ca/article/viewFile/175/196.
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