Sydney Henderson has survived a horrific childhood, educated himself, and now lives peacefully in a little shack among neighbors who are suspicious of him. When he marries the beautiful Elly Brown, a resentful neighbor falsely accuses him of murder and child abuse.
In his major new novel, Richards explores the dying days of the lumber industry in the mid-20th century. This is a transfixing love story of betrayal, envy, and sexual jealousy, as well as a devastating portrait of a pre-mechanized time, and a brilliant commemoration of the passing of a world.
From the two-time winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, a suspenseful story of greed, betrayal, murder, and a lottery ticket that may or may not be worth millions. For 20 years, Alex Chapman -- a worn-out academic and failed priest -- has been at war with his great-uncle James, a man known in his small-town community as "The ...
The award-winning author of "Mercy Among Children" takes readers on an unforgettable journey to the famed Miramichi River, where he casts light on the magical allure of fly-fishing.
In the 1920s, Janie McLeary and George King run one of the first movie theatres in the Maritimes. The marriage of the young Irish Catholic woman to an older English man is thought scandalous, but they work happily together, playing music to accompany the films. When George succumbs to illness and dies, leaving Janie with one young child and ...
David Adams Richards' Governor General's Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards' acclaimed Miramichi trilogy. Set in a small mill town in northern New Brunswick, it draws us into the lives of a community of people who live there, including: Joe Walsh, ...
Brent Stevens finds himself lying face down in Central Park trying to figure out the basics--who he is, where he is, and who has tried to kill him--and inadvertently enters a web of secrets and lies that connects him to some of the most powerful names in show business.
'Blood Ties.' For David Richards, this is not merely a figure of speech, it is an assertion of the reality of life in small-town Canada, where blood ties people in countless, almost unknowable ways to friends, community, and landscape.
Cindi and Ivan Basterache have been married only twenty months. There is a disagreement over a loan, and rumours of violence in the ensuing quarrel begin to spread throughout the northern New Brunswick mill town in which they live, setting in motion a series of events and misunderstandings. As Ivan struggles to reconcile with Cindi, the community ...
Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, "River of the Broken-Hearted" explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, and ...
Winner of Canada's most prestigious award for literature, David Adams Richardspresents his seventh novel--a suspenseful and moving, dark and redemptive, devastating and comic narrative set in a fictional community along the Miramichi. His characters reveal the damage we are capable of causing through misunderstanding good intentions.
Set in a small town in New Brunswick, this intricate, multi-layered novel revolves around the hapless Shackle family. There is Garth, a promising hockey player whose career has been destroyed; Vicki, his beautiful, self-destructive wife; and Garth's brother Neil, a successful academic haunted by the life and family he has left behind. Then there ...
David Adams Richards finds universal truths in the very particular setting of New Brunswick' s Miramichi Valley. This, his first novel, provides a window upon a world that is as unsettling, as uncontrollable, and as inescapably authentic as a sudden brawl. The frustrations of the community are brought into focus in the plights of 20-year-old ...
"As a child I had the idea that trout were golden, or green, in deep pools hidden away under the moss of a riverbank. And that someday I would walk in the right direction, take all the right paths to the river and find them there."In Line on the Water, award-winning author David Adams Richard takes us on an unforgettable journey to the Miramichi ...
The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization. What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his ...
In a small New Brunswick town, Karrie Smith is happily engaged to a stalwart farmer when she suddenly falls hard for the local bad boy, but unfortunately he's involved with the town slut, who also deals drugs. When a murder occurs, events and partnerships get shaken up until the ending rights many of the wrongs. Years later, the protagonists look ...
An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world's terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for salmon seems like one, and it sets the stage for action. A cast of quirky, unforgettable characters - Nutbeam, a ...
Lines on the Water is the story of a town, it's river and the community of people who fish it. David Adams Richards is a prize-winning author but when he's not writing, he's mostly fishing and when he's fishing it's always along the banks of the Miramichi river. This great river and the poachers, guides, visiting city suits and friends who share ...
In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist. David Adams Richards, one of Canada's most beloved and celebrated authors, has been ...
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