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Rare Birds Paperback - 2001

by Riche, Edward

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  • Title Rare Birds
  • Author Riche, Edward
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday Can Titles, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date August 14, 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP82770433
  • ISBN 9780385658621 / 0385658621
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

A noted writer for the stage, screen and radio, Edward Riche wrote the feature film Secret Nation and the stage plays Possible Maps and List of Lights. Other projects include CBC Radio’s “The Great Eastern” and scripts for the television comedy “Made in Canada,” as well as the screenplay for Rare Birds. Edward Riche lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Rare Birds is his first novel.

Excerpt

"The dining room was a festival.  Every bite of salad sprayed cool juices, tasting of green and sun and earth.  The wines were rubies and topaz in the candlelight.  Tables were talking to one another.  Elbows hung over the backs of chairs.  The air was jagged with laughter.  It was the party to end all parties."

Media reviews

“Rare Birds is a rare treat. Nasty and delicious, boiling with caustic wit, it will stay with you for a long time.”– Rick Mercer

“One good story this one … as classy as it is irreverent.” – Tomson Highway

“Uproarious … Rare Birds is a farce that is particularly Newfoundland in its sense of humour, at once slapstick and satire … Comedy is replacing cod as the number one export of the Atlantic provinces.” – Russell Smith, The Globe and Mail

“Readers will be hooting out loud … Riche displays a flair for hip urban social comedy.” – Sandra Gwyn, Maclean’s

“Rare Birds is a richly comic satire of addiction, extinction, and new beginnings.” – Saturday Night magazine

About the author

EDWARD RICHE is a novelist and noted writer for the stage, screen and radio. His novel The Nine Planets won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. He wrote the feature film Secret Nation and the stage plays Possible Maps and List of Lights. Other projects include CBC Radio's The Great Eastern, scripts for the television comedies Made in Canada and Dooley Gardens, and the screenplay for the major motion picture adaptation of his novel, Rare Birds. Edward Riche lives in St. John' s, Newfoundland.

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