Final Things

<p>With the publication of Clara Callan and its sweep of the awards and bestseller lists, Richard B. Wright has become a household name. But as many fiction lovers are just now discovering, Wright has been dazzling critics, writers, and his loyal audience for years, with stories that grab hold and don’t let go. Final Things is one such book, a story as shockingly timely now as it was when it was first published in 1980.</p>
<p> Jonathan Farris, 12, leaves his father’s apartment one Saturday afternoon and never returns. The next day police discover that Jonathan was brutally raped and murdered, his trip to the convenience store cut short by an unknown killer. Charlie, Jonathan’s father, already on a down-ward slide from a nasty divorce, a stalled writing career, and a creeping alcohol addiction, struggles to cope with the most devastating loss a parent can ever endure. When an anonymous phone call offers him information about his son’s killer, Charlie is galvanized into action, channeling his grief, his guilt, and his rage into one of the most powerful confrontations since James Dickey’s Deliverance.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Richard B. Wright

Literary

Harpercollins

Clara Callan

Contemporary

Flamingo

HarperCollins, Publishers

One John A. Too Many (Nelson Novels Ser.)

Nelson/Thomson Learning

In the Middle of a Life

Macmillan

Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. His second book.

In The Middle Of A Life

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

It is one of those rare novels that readers describe as having "changed my life." First published in the early 1970s, The Weekend Man immediately established Richard B. Wright as a fresh and powerful new voice in North American fiction. Now, with his 1995 double nomination for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for The Age of Longing, Richard B. Wright continues to connect strongly with his audience.  A textbook publishing salesman whose life seems poised continually on the verge of free-fall, 30-year-old Wes Wakeham waffles between fighting the sad nostalgia of his past and the certain failure of his future. Shot through with the ironies of urban life, love and lust. The Weekend Man is as relevant in the '90s as it was in the '70s.

The Weekend Man

Signet

E.P.Dutton

Told through diaries and letters, sisters Clara and Nora are brought to life in a world struggling through the Depression and the threat of fascism in Europe. Violence, deception, and loss are never far away from both sisters as they journey from innocence to experience.

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