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Mercy Among the Children a Novel

Lyle Henderson defends his pacifist father and the rest of his family against the increasingly hostile fellow residents of their isolated Canadian community.

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  • "Mercy Among the Children"

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  • "Lyle Henderson defends his pacifist father and the rest of his family against the increasingly hostile fellow residents of their isolated Canadian community."@en
  • "Lyle Henderson defends his pacifist father and the rest of his family against the increasingly hostile fellow residents of their isolated Canadian community."
  • "Another story based in the fictional rural town in Miramichi."
  • "Dans le New Brunswick au Canada, Sydney Henderson a 12 ans lorsqu'il voit son ami Connie tomber du toit de l'église. Convaincu de l'avoir tué, Sydney se jure de ne jamais faire de mal à quelqu'un à l'avenir. Devenu un brillant jeune homme, il suit sa promesse même lorsqu'on l'accuse à tort de l'assassinat d'un jeune garçon. Son fils décide alors d'intervenir pour sauver l'honneur de la famille."
  • "Sydney Henderson is a truly great man. As a young man, Sydney, believing he has accidentally killed a friend, makes a pact with God, promising never to harm another if the boy's life is spared. In the years that follow, the almost pathologically gentle Sydney holds true to his promise - at terrible cost to himself and his family. Stunningly beautiful and haunting, scenes from this magisterial novel will remain etched in the mind forever."@en
  • "Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General's Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000's best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however, as being at odds with literary fashion for concerning itself with good and evil and the human freedom to choose between them -- an approach that puts Richards, as Maclean's magazine says, firmly in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Author Wayne Johnston recounts hearing Richards read in 1983 and being struck by his unqualified love for every one of his characters, even though "it was not then fashionable to love your characters". Pottersfield Portfolio editor Tony Tremblay calls Richards the most misunderstood Canadian writer of the century, and a "great moralist", comparing him to Morley Callaghan, Kafka and Melville."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Religious fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "Genade onder kinderen"
  • "大卫·理查兹获奖作品选, 孩子间的仁爱"
  • "La malédiction Henderson : roman"
  • "Grzech milosierdzia [Polish text], David Adams Richards"
  • "Da wei · li cha zi huo jiang zuo pin xuan. hai zi jian de ren ai"
  • "Mercy among the children. David Adams Richards"
  • "Grzech miłosierdzia"
  • "Grzech miłosierdzia"@pl
  • "Mercy Among the Children"
  • "Mercy Among the Children a Novel"@en
  • "Mercy among children"@en
  • "Mercy among the children"
  • "Mercy among the children"@en
  • "La malediction henderson roman"
  • "Hai zi jian de ren ai"
  • "Brennendes Eis : Roman"
  • "Mercy among the children : a novel"@en
  • "Mercy among the children : a novel"
  • "Mercy among the children a novel"@en
  • "Mercy among the children a novel"

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