The Bay of Love and Sorrows - Brossura

Richards, David Adams

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ISBN 10: 0385660057 ISBN 13: 9780385660051

Casa editrice: Anchor Canada, 2002

Riassunto

From David Adams Richards, one of Canada's finest writers, The Bay of Love and Sorrows is an unflinching story of ambition and betrayal. The novel begins as the once-strong friendship between Michael Skid, the privileged young son of a judge from town, and farmhand Tommie Donnerel collapses under the weight of a bitter misunderstanding. As Michael sets out to prove something to himself and others, he becomes drawn into the company of the beautiful and determined Madonna Brassaurd and her brother, Silver, and together the three are soon seduced by the glamour of Everette Hutch, a charismatic but violent man. Bridging the decent world of Tommie Donnerel and the darker realm of the Brassaurds and Everette Hutch is Karrie Smith, whose deep longing for a more exciting life makes her especially vulnerable to a world she does not completely understand.

Now a major motion picture from Odeon Films, starring Jonathan Scarfe, Joanne Kelly, Christopher Jacot, Elaine Cassidy, Zachary Bennett, Torquil Campbell, Rhonda McLean and Peter Outerbridge as Everette.

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Recensione:

"In The Bay of Love and Sorrows, one of the world's finest web-spinners crafts a superb and riveting yarn guaranteed to satisfy readers craving an unforgettable fictional feast." -- The Toronto Star

"Thoroughly engrossing... the eloquent spareness of the prose and the speed with which events unfold is breathtaking." -- The Globe and Mail

“His novels will make you cry, not for the sadness of it all... not for the pain of loss, but for the beauty of it all, the tragic and comic beauty.” -- Sheldon Currie, author of The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (filmed as Margaret’s Museum)

“The deft, understated artistry with which Richards conveys his vision is exhilarating....” -- Maclean’s

“How can one not feel anything but immense gratitude for such powerful work of the literary imagination.” -- Eric Tretheway, The Fiddlehead

“It’s his voice, really, which mesmerizes. Few writers have so distinct an ululation, so hypnotic a cry, so intoxicating a lament. When David Adams Richards writes, narration fuses with incantation....” -- Vancouver Sun

“I predict that a century from now readers will discover in Richards’ novels and short stories the same heartbreaking treasures we find in the novels of Thomas Hardy.” -- Kitchener-Waterloo Record

"His voice is one of the most powerful and necessary to be found in Canadian fiction today.” -- Ottawa Citizen

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Anchor Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385660057
• ISBN 13: 9780385660051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320