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The
2005 Award
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River of the Brokenhearted by David Adams Richards
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Nominated by:
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Janie
McCleary and her husband George King run one of the first movie theatres
in the Maritimes. Their marriage is deemed scandalous - he is Church of
England, she is Irish Catholic - but it is not until George dies in the
1920s that the town, led by the fiendish and unscrupulous Joey Elias, turns
against Janie and her children. A woman in a world of men, she soon finds
herself nearly hounded out of business. But not only does she survive, the canny and driven Janey prospers. In a stroke of entrepreneurial brilliance, she seizes exclusive rights to the revolutionary 'talkies'. Within a year, she is wealthy, but ostracised. More and more reclusive, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence, Janie is reluctant to trust even those closest to her. The spectre of Janie is raised again in her grand-daughter. Ginger, brilliant, funny, tempestuous, as fiery in spirit as Janie ever was, heir to Janie's legacy. But moving without her grandmother's surefootedness through an equally dangerous world. Ginger forms an alliance with the one person most likely to destroy her. River of the Brokenhearted muses on the tyranny of memory and history, and peers into the hearts of its extraordinary characters.
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Adams Richards was born in 1950 in New Brunswick, Canada. His most recent
novel, Mercy Among the Children, won the 2000 Giller Prize. His other
novels include Nights below Station Street, which won the Governor
General's Award, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, and The Bay
of Love and Sorrows. |
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