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Informationen zum Autor DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS is one of Canada's pre-eminent writers. His recent novels include Mary Cyr and Principles to Live By , as well as Crimes Against My Brother and Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul , both of which were longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Among his other novels, The Lost Highway was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Friends of Meagre Fortune won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; Mercy Among the Children won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Trillium Award. Richards is also the author of the celebrated Miramichi Triology and has written four bestselling books of nonfiction, Lines on the Water , God Is , Facing the Hunter and Hockey Dreams , and most recently the collection of essays Murder . In 2017, David Adams Richards was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Zusammenfassung The Terris are engaging people! but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism! drugs! and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse! they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization. What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his characters are at times vicious! sleazy! and even outright dim! yet he manages to entitle them to the interest and sympathy of the reader. Even more now than at its first publication in 1981! Lives of Short Duration ’s sharp! essential insights have significance for readers seeking to understand the modern Canadian predicament.
