Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction: Cultural Life on the Miramichi 1
7. 1. Richards’s Ancestry 18
8. 2. Richards’s Birth and Early Years 39
9. 3. Oliver Twist and the 1960s 62
10. 4. Stepping Outside and In: St Thomas University to Small Heroics 102
11. 5. Alden Nowlan and The Coming of Winter 137
12. 6. Ties of Friendship and of Blood 177
13. 7. ‘The great unwholesome anonymity of North America’: Lives to AA 210
14. 8. Rebuilding the Base: Fredericton, Stilt House, and the First GG Nomination 256
15. Conclusion: Nights Below and Stars Above 299
16. Bibliography 327
17. Illustration Credits 345
18. Index 347