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Hope in the Desperate Hour
by Richards, David Adams
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- NF.
- ISBN 10
- 0771075138
- ISBN 13
- 9780771075131
- Seller
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Waterloo,, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. Soft cover. NF.. 5x0x8. Novel by the author of Nights Below Station Street.
Synopsis
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. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Old Goat Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1106136
- Title
- Hope in the Desperate Hour
- Author
- Richards, David Adams
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0771075138
- ISBN 13
- 9780771075131
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 5x0x8
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