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Lives of Short Duration
Richards, David Adams Publisher: New Canadian Library, Canada
Date Written: 01/04/1993
Year Published: 1993
ISBN: 9780771098864
Book Type: Fiction
Resource Type: Book
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.
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