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<i>The Coming of Winter</i>

The Coming of Winter

1974 novel by David Adams Richards

The Coming of Winter is a novel by Canadian writer David Adams Richards, published in 1974.[1] His debut novel, it was published after an excerpt from the novel won the Norma Epstein Prize for unpublished writing by Canadian university students.[2]

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The novel centres on Kevin Dulse, a young man going through a difficult period as he approaches his 21st birthday.[3]

The novel was subsequently reissued as part of the New Canadian Library series.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Deeply in luxuriant gloom". The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1974.
  2. [2]
    Linda-Ann Sturgeon, "David Adams Richards" in Profiles in Canadian Literature 8, Volume 8 (Jeffrey M. Heath, ed.) Dundurn Press, 1991. ISBN 9781554882700. pp. 83-90.
  3. [3]
    H. W. Connor, "Coming of Winter, Coming of Age: The Autumnal Vision of David Adams Richards' First Novel". Studies in Canadian Literature, Volume 09, Number 1 (1984).
  4. [4]
    "Three authors in town for meeting". Halifax Daily News, November 8, 1982.
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