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For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down

Geist Staff

When Thoreau remarked that most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, he must have been reading David Adams Richards. For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (McClelland & Stewart) is Richards' latest novel, continuing his examination of life as it is lived in small-town New Brunswick. There is no uplift here, no comedy, no folksy down-East fiddle-playing sentimentality so familiar from the CBC. The story is a downer; bad things happening to battered people. But the book is a triumph. It is beautifully written, spare and muscular and illusive, much like the personalities of the main characters. Richards is a national treasure, giving voice to a place and a class that Literature usually ignores.

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