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| Author | David Adams Richards |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Miramichi trilogy |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | McClelland and Stewart |
Publication date | May 1988 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (hardback,paperback) |
| Preceded by | Road to the Stilt House |
| Followed by | Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace |
Nights Below Station Street is a novel byDavid Adams Richards, published in 1988.[1] It is the first volume in his Miramichi trilogy, along with the novelsEvening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990) andFor Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993).[2]
The novel centres on the Walshes, a rural New Brunswick family in the 1970s.[1] Patriarch Joe has been only irregularly employed since injuring his back at work several years earlier, his wife Rita is concerned about his resulting struggles withalcoholism and depression while herself struggling to cope with being the family's sole breadwinner, and teenage daughter Adele is bitterly unhappy with the family's circumstances and resentful of her father's inability to hold steady work.[1]
The novel won theGovernor General's Award for English-language fiction at the1988 Governor General's Awards.[3]
The novel was adapted byCredo Entertainment Group as atelevision film,[4] which aired onCBC Television in 1998.[5] The cast includedLiisa Repo-Martell as Adele Walsh,Lynda Boyd as Rita,Michael Hogan as Joe, andBrent Stait as Vye.[4] It was also adapted for the stage byCaleb Marshall in 2006.[6]
Richards directly pokes fun at himself in his 2016 novelPrinciples to Live By, in which several characters dismissNights Below Station Street as a "dirty, ignorant novel" that "nobody in their right mind would want to read".[7]