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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The Brethren
eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37606-0 (0-307-37606-0)
September 14, 2010 | $32.95
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37606-0 (0-307-37606-0)
September 14, 2010 | $32.95
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Brethren
Hardcover | 384 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66653-4 (0-385-66653-5)
September 14, 2010 | $32.95
Written by David Adams Richards
Hardcover | 384 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66653-4 (0-385-66653-5)
September 14, 2010 | $32.95
Also available as an
eBook.
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
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...
God Is.
eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-307-37253-6 (0-307-37253-7)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
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
eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-307-37253-6 (0-307-37253-7)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
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...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
God Is.
Hardcover | 176 pages | Doubleday Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-385-66651-0 (0-385-66651-9)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
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
Hardcover | 176 pages | Doubleday Canada | Religion - Philosophy
978-0-385-66651-0 (0-385-66651-9)
August 18, 2009 | $29.95
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...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Lost Highway
eBook | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37204-8 (0-307-37204-9)
February 24, 2009 | $21.00
What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37204-8 (0-307-37204-9)
February 24, 2009 | $21.00
What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Lost Highway
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66497-4 (0-385-66497-4)
July 29, 2008 | $21.00
What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order...
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66497-4 (0-385-66497-4)
July 29, 2008 | $21.00
What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Friends of Meager Fortune
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66095-2 (0-385-66095-2)
July 31, 2007 | $21.00
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
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66095-2 (0-385-66095-2)
July 31, 2007 | $21.00
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...
River of the Brokenhearted
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-65888-1 (0-385-65888-5)
June 15, 2004 | $21.00
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
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-65888-1 (0-385-65888-5)
June 15, 2004 | $21.00
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...
The Bay of Love and Sorrows
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-66005-1 (0-385-66005-7)
December 10, 2002 | $21.00
From David Adams Richards, one of Canada's finest writers, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal. The novel begins as the once-strong friendship between Michael Skid, the privileged young son of a judge from town, and farmhand Tommie Donnerel collapses under the weight of...
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-385-66005-1 (0-385-66005-7)
December 10, 2002 | $21.00
From David Adams Richards, one of Canada's finest writers, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal. The novel begins as the once-strong friendship between Michael Skid, the privileged young son of a judge from town, and farmhand Tommie Donnerel collapses under the weight of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Lines on the Water
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-65857-7 (0-385-65857-5)
November 27, 2001 | $21.00
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
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-65857-7 (0-385-65857-5)
November 27, 2001 | $21.00
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...
Hockey Dreams
Trade Paperback | 248 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-65856-0 (0-385-65856-7)
October 9, 2001 | $19.95
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
Trade Paperback | 248 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-65856-0 (0-385-65856-7)
October 9, 2001 | $19.95
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...
Mercy Among the Children
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-25995-8 (0-385-25995-6)
August 21, 2001 | $22.00
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
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-25995-8 (0-385-25995-6)
August 21, 2001 | $22.00
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...
The Bay of Love and Sorrows
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-25997-2 (0-385-25997-2)
October 10, 2000 | $17.95
From the two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal.
The novel begins as the once-strong friendship between Michael Skid, the privileged young son of a judge from town, and farmhand Tommie Donnerel collapses under the weight of...
Written by David Adams Richards
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-25997-2 (0-385-25997-2)
October 10, 2000 | $17.95
From the two-time winner of the Governor General's Award, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal.
The novel begins as the once-strong friendship between Michael Skid, the privileged young son of a judge from town, and farmhand Tommie Donnerel collapses under the weight of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Lines On The Water
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Fishing
978-0-385-25850-0 (0-385-25850-X)
April 20, 1999 | $18.95
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
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Doubleday Canada | Sports & Recreation - Fishing
978-0-385-25850-0 (0-385-25850-X)
April 20, 1999 | $18.95
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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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