The Friends Of Meager Fortune

The Friends Of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards


ISBN
9780224078153
Published
Released
01 / 01 / 2008
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Dimensions
137 x 215 x 29mm

Another remarkable novel by one of Canada's greatest novelists, a story of good and evil, fate and hope, set against the background of a logging town on the brink of change.

Will Jameson has a temperament of iron, standing up to men twice his age when he takes over the Jameson lumber company after his father’s death. His younger brother Owen is sensitive, literary and fanciful. But when Will dies suddenly and Owen's beloved Lula rejects him, Owen's deeper character comes to light: joining the army in the hope of getting himself killed, instead Owen returns home a decorated war hero.

Then he falls in love with the beautiful, childlike Camellia – the wife of Will’s old friend Reggie Glidden – and soon Owen and Camellia find themselves watched on all sides, caught in the teeth of an entire town’s gossip and hypocrisy. Inexorably, they are pulled into a chain of events that will end with death, disappearance and a sensational trial.

'The Friends Of Meager Fortune' is a transfixing love story and a devastating portrait of a society – but it is also a brilliant commemoration of the passing of a world, that of the lumberjacks who felled the trees by hand and dragged them down mountainsides with horses. Owen Jameson begins what will become the greatest cut in New Brunswick history, his men setting up camp on the notoriously dangerous Good Friday Mountain. The teamsters spend months in pitiless ice and snow, daily pitting themselves against nature and risking their lives for scant reward, in the last moments before the coming of mechanization that will make them obsolete. This heroic, brutal life is all Meager Fortune, the camp keeper, knows. A good and innocent man, he shows unexpected resolution in the face of the betrayals of the more worldly men around him.

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.
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