Lives of Short Duration
Lives of Short Duration
ISBN: 9780771098864
出版社: Random House Inc
出版年: 1993-4
页数: 400
定价: CDN$ 7.95
装帧: Pap
内容简介
The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization.
What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his characters are at times vicious, sleazy, and even outright dim, yet he manages to entitle them to the interest and sympathy of the reader.
Even more now than at its first publication in 1981, Lives of Short Duration ’s sharp, essential insights have significance for readers seeking to understand the modern Canadian predicament.