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Book: Lives of Short Duration

Lives of Short Duration

By David Adams Richards
Published in 1993 by New Canadian Library
Originally published in 1981
Rating: 5 / 5

Description:

The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization.

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