Of course you don't always know where you are going – but for some reason all movements happen because they were meant to.There's a sense of inevitable tragedy at the heart of Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace and David Adams Richards is so masterful at introducing characters and then subverting...
This book is great, for the most part. However, I think that it felt just a little bit too... cynical? David Adams Richards is clearly an incredible writer, but I got the impression that he was a little bit "ranty" at times. The ending was fantastic.Also: "In reality in Canada, there are two kind...
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down was another novel we read in my seminar class this year, and was my first DAR (David Adams Richards) novel. I KNOW. I don't know how I am Canadian, not to mention a Maritimer, and even worse a New Brunswicker and have not read anything by DAR, (though thankfull...
David Adams Richards uses the life of his grandmother as inspiration for the character Hanna Jane (Janie) McLeary King in River of the Brokenhearted, a multigenerational family saga set in a small New Brunswick village. The novel is narrated by her grandson, Wendell King, and covers four generati...
Nights Below Station Street is my introduction to the work of David Adams Richards - and it's certainly not a bad choice, as it won the author the prestigious Governor's General Award for Fiction when it was first published in 1988.Nights... is a short, quiet book set in a small mill town in the ...
I take great interest in any novel that explores violence, so David Adams Richards's Mercy Among the Children, with all its accolades and set as it is just across the bridge from the island where I live, was a must read.I had high expectations because Mercy Among the Children tied Anil's Ghost (a...