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Hope in the Desperate Hour
by Richards, David Adams
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 077107459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771074592
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About This Item
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1996. Soft Cover/French Flaps. Fine/Unknown. Fine 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.223 clean tight copy.
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's Inventory #
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- Title
- Hope in the Desperate Hour
- Author
- Richards, David Adams
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover/French Flaps
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 077107459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771074592
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- FICTION LITERATURE MEDITATIONS RELIGION
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