Lives of Short Duration

Name: Lives of Short Duration
Author: David Adams Richards

by David Adams Richards

Young man yearns for escape from violent, economically devastated hometown

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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.

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