num_pages: 377
description: In his major new novel, The Friends of Meager Fortune, Richards explores the dying days of the lumber industry in the mid-twentieth century. This is a transfixing love story of betrayal, envy, and sexual jealousy, which builds to a tragically inevitable climax. It is also a devastating portrait of a pre-mechanized time, and a brilliant commemoration of the passing of a world. Rich with all the passion, ambition and almost mythic vision that defines David Adams Richards' work, The Friends of Meager Fortune is a profound and important book about the hands and the heart; about true greatness and true weakness; about the relentlessness of fate and the evil that men and women do. Wise, stark, and without a false word in it, it cements David Adams Richards' claim to be the finest novelist at work in Canada today.
language: English
title: The Friends of Meager Fortune
titlecomplete: The Friends of Meager Fortune
genres: Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 555
awards: name: Writers Guild, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada
publisher: MacAdam/Cage