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“The richness and resonance of Richards’s voice is unique in Canadian fiction.…Strong and passionate, moving and compelling – a novel that will not soon be forgotten.”
–Quill & Quire
“Vivid and assured.…This book is first class.”
–Edmonton Journal
“Well shaped and has a rich emotional resonance that is deeply satisfying and timeless.”
–Winnipeg Free Press
“Read this wonderful book.…Every smell and taste and season of the Miramichi Valley is evoked longingly.”
–B.C. Reader
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–Quill & Quire
“Vivid and assured.…This book is first class.”
–Edmonton Journal
“Well shaped and has a rich emotional resonance that is deeply satisfying and timeless.”
–Winnipeg Free Press
“Read this wonderful book.…Every smell and taste and season of the Miramichi Valley is evoked longingly.”
–B.C. Reader
From the Hardcover edition.
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Cindi and Ivan Basterache have been married only twenty months. There is a disagreement over a loan, and rumours of violence in the ensuing quarrel begin to spread throughout the northern New Brunswick mill town in which they live, setting in motion a series of events and misunderstandings. As Ivan struggles to reconcile with Cindi, the community turns against him, fuelled by his father’s self-deluded lies and misguided attempts to set things right, exposing the other side of good intentions and leading to the novel’s powerful conclusion. Disturbing, tender-hearted, and at times darkly humorous, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace reveals the strange unrecognized power in us all to shape one another’s destinies.
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Another part of an amazing trilogy, Dec 18 2010
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This review is from: Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (Mass Market Paperback)
(Apologies for re-using the same text I just used for another book in this trilogy, "For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down.")I haven't read this book for quite some time but upon noticing no one had commented on it, I had to write SOMETHING. This is part of a trilogy by DAR set in the same hard-luck Eastern Canada burg. They have some overlapping characters, although each novel is complete into itself, there's no connecting overall storyline. You can read them in any order.
Richards has a knack for writing about bleak, small-town, lower-class lives teetering on the edge of complete disaster. He isn't condescending or judgmental about people most of us probably wouldn't want to spend time with in real life. (That is, in his early fiction--as of 2000's "Mercy Among the Children," which ironically was his first real popular success, he started being more overtly moralistic and preachy. I like his later work much, much less.) The desperation is palpable--as well as the pervasive poverty, violence and alcoholism--yet there's often a sort of transcendence at the end.
Some people might find something this stark and downbeat merely depressing. But if you have a taste for spare, beautifully crafted fiction whose thorny characters and relationships gradually reveal themselves and draw us in through everyday behavior, these books are an acquired taste that can be riveting and exhilarating in their own way. It's not excessive to say that the first 20-plus years of DAR's novels make him worthy of being called the Faulkner of rural New Brunswick.
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