Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace Explained

Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
Author:David Adams Richards
Country:Canada
Language:English
Series:Miramichi Trilogy
Genre:Novel
Publisher:McClelland and Stewart
Release Date:1990
Media Type:Hardback, Paperback
Preceded By:Nights Below Station Street
Followed By:For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down

Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace is a novel by David Adams Richards, published in 1990.[1] It was the second volume in his Miramichi trilogy, which also included the novels Nights Below Station Street (1988) and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993).[2]

The novel centres primarily on Ivan and Cindi Bastarache,[3] a couple whose troubled marriage begins to disintegrate when Cindi, who suffers from epilepsy, injures herself during a fight with Ivan over money, leading their family and friends to believe that Ivan has committed domestic violence against her.[4]

The novel won the Canadian Authors Association award for fiction in 1991.[5]

Notes and References

  1. "Richards novel breaks from middle-class narcissism". Calgary Herald, December 15, 1990.
  2. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/david-adams-richards/ "David Adams Richards"
  3. "Characters adrift in a community of episodes". Vancouver Sun, December 29, 1990.
  4. "First-class' novel vivid and assured". Edmonton Journal, December 9, 1990.
  5. "Authors win national awards". Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 1991.