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The Bay of Love and Sorrows
Written in taut, penetrating prose, Richards' new novel offers a wide array of unforgettable characters. All are wrestling with issues of integrity, slf-prservation, and power in the same close confines of their coastal community, and tragedy is waiting to happen. Home from college for the summer is Karrie Smith, whose deep longing for a more exciting life makes her especi...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
April 7th 2003
by Arcade Publishing
(first published 1998)
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I found this book in a second hand book store this past summer. I had read another of this author's books and knew it would be a good one. I was not disappointed. This author writes simply but with such feeling about characters who are so real. Both of the books I've read take place in New Brunswick in smaller rural communities where the lives of the characters are tightly woven. This one takes place during the of summer 1974. A group of unlikely young people are linked together because of tragi...more
David Adams Richards' Mercy Among the Children was really my top book of 2009. It was so incredible that I hesitated over reading another one of Richards' books. The Bay of Love and Sorrows is the powerful tale of ambition and betrayal in a small Nova Scotia town in the 1970s. Karrie Smith and Tom Donnerel are sweethearts who, after her first year of college, have a falling out. Karrie gives in to her attraction to Tom's former friend, Michael Skid who lures Karrie into a manipulative and lovele...more
It has been a long time since I have read a Richards book,and this one did not disappoint. The ones I have read are more recent; this story took place in the 70's. There is some overblown description, but overall, I love the images he invokes - and a lot of them are dark and evil. You really get a sense of what it is to be poor in rural New Brunswick and how, given a tiny break, people could get at least a chance in life. What is also evident, in the rich, is their lack of compassion, understand...more
I picked up this hard cover David Adams Richards novel off a discarded pile in a local library out of curiosity. Who would discard this doyen of Canadian literature, a writer I have had the highest admiration for?
Then I realized why. This is a hard book to read because its style is so unique, and unlike the other books of this author that I have read. An omniscient narrator flits around all the characters, twisting and turning them into a plot line that goes around in circles, leaving the charac...more
Then I realized why. This is a hard book to read because its style is so unique, and unlike the other books of this author that I have read. An omniscient narrator flits around all the characters, twisting and turning them into a plot line that goes around in circles, leaving the charac...more
It was about were I was born and grew up and I Loved It!
Recommended to me by a friend because I need to read more Canadian authors, and I worked in the area of NB where this story takes place. The story itself is very sad, and the way of life these people had was scary. I'm very lucky to not know what it's like to be robbed, beaten and very poor my entire life.
I found it, at times, difficult to follow. There was a lot going on, a lot of characters and sometimes I forgot who was who and who had done what to who and whether they were coming or going. B...more
I found it, at times, difficult to follow. There was a lot going on, a lot of characters and sometimes I forgot who was who and who had done what to who and whether they were coming or going. B...more
I actually did not complete this book. It was dark and depressing. The characters had no redeeming value. I could not find hope.
Another achingly sad, terrifying, profound trip into the bleak world of rural Atlantic Canada.
Can't put it down, great local maritime culture & crime piece.
Beautiful and sad
Oct 18, 2009
Kevin
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someone who is ready to be emotionally taken on a good ride
a very good book ...had a really hard time putting it down..the characters are so real,so compelling,i know them...i care for them..when they hurt, i hurt, i have read the first 11 of david adams richards books and i have to say to you david this is the best so far...
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David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.
Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, one course shy of completing a B.A. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick.
Richards has received numerou...more
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Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, one course shy of completing a B.A. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick.
Richards has received numerou...more
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