Hope in the Desperate Hour Paperback - 2001

Name: Hope in the Desperate Hour
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Author: Richards, David Adams
ISBN: 9780771075131

by David Adams Richards

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David Adams Richards was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, in 1950. He has published ten acclaimed novels, including the award-winning Miramichi trilogy – Nights Below Station Street, winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993), winner of the Thomas Raddall Award – Hope in the Desperate Hour (1996), The Bay of Love and Sorrows (1998), and, most recently, Mercy Among the Children (2000), co-winner of the prestigious Giller Prize. In 1993, Richards received the Canada-Australia Prize.

Richards has also published three non-fiction books, most recently the Governor General’s Award-winning fishing memoir Lines on the Water (1998), and has written Gemini Award-winning screenplays for the CBC-TV adaptations of his novels For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down and Nights Below Station Street. “Small Gifts,” his original screenplay for CBC-TV, won a Gemini Award and the New York International Film Festival Award for Best Script.

Richards now lives in Toronto with his wife, Peggy, and their two sons.

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Details

Title Hope in the Desperate Hour
Author David Adams Richards
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 232
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Emblem Editions, 2001
Date 2001
ISBN 9780771075131 / 0771075138
Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Richards’ prose is bared-to-the-bone and as hard as flint.…Compelling.…”
–Globe and Mail

“The deft, understated artistry with which Richards conveys his vision is exhilarating.…[He] has spun a beguiling tale.”
–Maclean’s

“He portrays the nobility of the human spirit even in failure and the inevitable failures of being human. A profoundly moral book, Hope in the Desperate Hour is generous and sympathetic.”
–eye Magazine

“[Richards is] a gifted writer whose fiction is among the most powerful in Canada today.”
–London Free Press

About the author

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.