The Coming of Winter is a novel by Canadian writer David Adams Richards, published in 1974."Deeply in luxuriant gloom". The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1974. It is his debut novel. It was published after an excerpt from the novel won the Norma Epstein Prize for unpublished writing by Canadian university students.Linda-Ann Sturgeon, "David Adams Richards" in Profiles in Canadian Literature 8, Volume 8 (Jeffrey M. Heath, ed.) Dundurn Press, 1991. . pp. 83-90.
The novel centres on Kevin Dulse, a young man going through a difficult period as he approaches his 21st birthday.H. W. Connor, "Coming of Winter, Coming of Age: The Autumnal Vision of David Adams Richards' First Novel". Studies in Canadian Literature, Volume 09, Number 1 (1984).
The novel was subsequently reissued as part of the New Canadian Library series."Three authors in town for meeting". Halifax Daily News, November 8, 1982.
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