Mercy Among the Children
Winner of the 2000 Scotiabank Giller Prize
As a boy, Sydney Henderson thinks he has killed Connie Devlin when he pushes him from a roof for stealing his sandwich. He vows to God he will never again harm another if Connie survives. Connie walks away, laughing, and Sydney embarks upon a life of self-immolating goodness. In spite of having educated himself with such classics as Tolstoy and Marcus Aurelius, he is not taken seriously enough to enter university because of his background of dire poverty and abuse, which leads everyone to expect the worst of him. His saintly generosity of spirit is treated with suspicion and contempt, especially when he manages to win the…
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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 at the University of New Brunswick. Richards would hitch-hike from his home in Newcastle to Fredericton every Tuesday night…
Songs of Love on a December Night
David Adams Richards
The Tragedy of Eva Mott
David Adams Richards
Darkness
David Adams Richards
Murder
David Adams Richards
Mary Cyr
David Adams Richards
Hockey Dreams
David Adams Richards
Lines on the Water
David Adams Richards
Principles to Live By
David Adams Richards
Crimes Against My Brother
David Adams Richards
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
David Adams Richards
Facing the Hunter
David Adams Richards
Blood Ties
David Adams Richards, Afterword by Merna Summers
Lives of Short Duration
David Adams Richards, Afterword by Alistair MacLeod
The Coming of Winter
David Adams Richards, Afterword by Rick Hillis
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Homesickness
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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
A Great Country
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
The Maid's Secret
Nita Prose
The Golden Doves
Martha Hall Kelly
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Nobody Asked for This
Georgia Toews
Flesh
David Szalay
Curiosities
Anne Fleming
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Helen Simonson