David Adams Richards
Canadian novelist from New Brunswick whose fiction chronicles the Miramichi River region with Faulknerian intensity. Mercy Among the Children won the Giller Prize. He is one of the greatest chroniclers of Canadian rural poverty and resilience.
Works
- Lives of Short DurationYoung man yearns for escape from violent, economically devastated hometown
- Nights Below Station StreetThree families navigate hardship and moral complexity in industrial New Brunswick
- Mercy Among the ChildrenFather and son bound by their capacity for forgiveness
- The Lost HighwayMan's criminal past threatens redemption with his childhood love
- Crimes Against My BrotherTwo men's bitter enmity rooted in working-class betrayal and pride