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Fiction Literary

The Wanton Troopers

by (author) Alden Nowlan

afterword by David Richards

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Nov 2009
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864925466
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $19.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864920836
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $12.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780864926944
    Publish Date
    May 2011
    List Price
    $19.99

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In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores. Family relationships, sexual confusions, and the pains of love are rendered with deep and authentic feeling. This is an essential book for all readers who have admired the work of this major Canadian writer.

About the authors

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) was born in Windsor, NS. Primarily self-educated, Nowlan worked as a newspaperman, and published poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. Writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick from 1969 to 1983, he was famous for the gatherings at his home, known as Windsor Castle. His awards include the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1967 for Bread, Wine and Salt and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1967-68). Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems was published in 1996. The literary award for excellence for the province of New Brunswick is named in his honour. The annual Alden Nowlan Literary Festival in Fredericton honours his contribution to Canadian literature.

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David Adams Richards is a resident of Fredericton and is one of only three Canadian writers who have won Governor General's Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction. His novel Mercy Among the Children won the 2000 Giller Prize, while his most recent novel, Incidents in the Life of Marcus Paul, won the 2012 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

David Richards' profile page

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