David Adams Richards
Born in 1950 in Newcastle, New Brunswick, David Adams Richards was the third of William and Margaret Richards' six children. He found his calling at the age of fourteen, after reading Oliver Twist, and embarked on a life of extraordinary purpose, one which he says didn't help his finances: "Sometimes … I thought it would be better if I were a plumber, but I wouldn't be very good."
At the age of twenty and after finishing his first novel, The Keeping of Gusties, Richards went in search of a community of writers. His quest ended when he met a group of academics...
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Facing the Hunter
Trade Paperback | pages | Anchor Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hunting
978-0-385-67614-4 (0-385-67614-X)
September 25, 2012 | $19.95
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | pages | Anchor Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hunting
978-0-385-67614-4 (0-385-67614-X)
September 25, 2012 | $19.95
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Hunting has not been a sport for David Adams Richards, but a way of life--and one to be celebrated and defended.
The woods have become a part of him. When he first entered them with a gun as a young boy he found "secret places that laid the framework of the template...
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66654-1 (0-385-66654-3)
August 7, 2012 | $19.95
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66654-1 (0-385-66654-3)
August 7, 2012 | $19.95
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Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers.
On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the...
Facing the Hunter
Hardcover | 224 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hunting
978-0-385-25918-7 (0-385-25918-2)
October 18, 2011 | $29.95
David Adams Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for his most powerful work of non-fiction yet.
In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada's greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. Like his...
Written by David Adams Richards
Hardcover | 224 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hunting
978-0-385-25918-7 (0-385-25918-2)
October 18, 2011 | $29.95
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David Adams Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for his most powerful work of non-fiction yet.
In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada's greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. Like his...
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Facing the Hunter
eBook | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hunting
978-0-385-67613-7 (0-385-67613-1)
October 18, 2011 | $15.99
David Adams Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for his most powerful work of non-fiction yet.
In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada's greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. Like his...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Hunting
978-0-385-67613-7 (0-385-67613-1)
October 18, 2011 | $15.99
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David Adams Richards takes us behind his gun and into the Canadian forest for his most powerful work of non-fiction yet.
In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada's greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. Like his...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Blood Ties
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9427-9 (0-7710-9427-2)
September 20, 2011 | $19.95
For David Adams Richards, blood ties is not merely a figure of speech, but 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. The lives of three generations of MacDurmots form a Miramichi Valley family portrait...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9427-9 (0-7710-9427-2)
September 20, 2011 | $19.95
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For David Adams Richards, blood ties is not merely a figure of speech, but 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. The lives of three generations of MacDurmots form a Miramichi Valley family portrait...
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The Coming of Winter
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9428-6 (0-7710-9428-0)
September 20, 2011 | $19.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9428-6 (0-7710-9428-0)
September 20, 2011 | $19.95
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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...
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paperback.
Lives of Short Duration
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9429-3 (0-7710-9429-9)
September 20, 2011 | $19.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9429-3 (0-7710-9429-9)
September 20, 2011 | $19.95
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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...
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The Friends of Meager Fortune
eBook | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37510-0 (0-307-37510-2)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
Growing up in a prominent lumber family in the Miramichi, brothers Will and Owen Jameson know little of the world beyond their town and the great men who work the forest, including their father. But as young men, the boys couldn’t be more different — where seventeen-year-old Will is headstrong and...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37510-0 (0-307-37510-2)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
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Growing up in a prominent lumber family in the Miramichi, brothers Will and Owen Jameson know little of the world beyond their town and the great men who work the forest, including their father. But as young men, the boys couldn’t be more different — where seventeen-year-old Will is headstrong and...
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trade paperback.
Mercy Among the Children
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $14.99
Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000’s best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $14.99
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Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000’s best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however...
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trade paperback.
River of the Brokenhearted
eBook | 448 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37509-4 (0-307-37509-9)
June 22, 2011 | $13.99
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...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | 448 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37509-4 (0-307-37509-9)
June 22, 2011 | $13.99
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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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
eBook | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37606-0 (0-307-37606-0)
May 10, 2011 | $17.99
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37606-0 (0-307-37606-0)
May 10, 2011 | $17.99
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Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers.
On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
Hardcover | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66653-4 (0-385-66653-5)
May 10, 2011 | $32.95
Written by David Adams Richards
Hardcover | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66653-4 (0-385-66653-5)
May 10, 2011 | $32.95
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Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers.
On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Hockey Dreams
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-36381-7 (0-307-36381-3)
April 20, 2011 | $13.99
With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.
The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines the globalization of...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-36381-7 (0-307-36381-3)
April 20, 2011 | $13.99
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With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.
The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines the globalization of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Lines on the Water
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-36382-4 (0-307-36382-1)
April 20, 2011 | $13.99
In Lines on the Water, David Adams Richards writes eloquently and movingly about his life on the shores of one of the world's great fishing rivers. With the same insight and emotion that have won him praise for his fiction, Richards brings to life a community centred on fly-fishing -- a...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-36382-4 (0-307-36382-1)
April 20, 2011 | $13.99
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In Lines on the Water, David Adams Richards writes eloquently and movingly about his life on the shores of one of the world's great fishing rivers. With the same insight and emotion that have won him praise for his fiction, Richards brings to life a community centred on fly-fishing -- a...
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trade paperback.
God Is.
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Anchor Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-385-66652-7 (0-385-66652-7)
March 23, 2010 | $19.95
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 wrestling with...
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Anchor Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-385-66652-7 (0-385-66652-7)
March 23, 2010 | $19.95
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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 wrestling with...
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eBook.
