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Hope in the Desperate Hour
by Richards, David Adams
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 077107459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771074592
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996. Wraps show very light rubbing. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight and unmarked.. First. French Flaps. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 077107459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771074592
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction - Canadian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Canadian;
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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