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River of the Brokenhearted by Richards, David Adams is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is River of the Brokenhearted about?

In The 1920s, Janie Mcleary And George King Run One Of The First Movie Theatres In The Maritimes. The Marriage Of The Young Irish Catholic Woman To An Older English Man Is Thought Scandalous, But They Work Happily Together, Playing Music To Accompany The Films. When George Succumbs To Illness And Dies, Leaving Janie With One Young Child And Another On The Way, The Unscrupulous Joey Elias Tries To Take Over The Business. But Janie Guards The Theatre With A Shotgun, And Still In Mourning, Re-opens It Herself. “if There Was No Real Bliss In Janie’s Life,” Recounts Her Grandson, “there Were Moments Of Triumph.” One Night, Deceived By The Bank Manager And Elias Into Believing She Will Lose Her Mortgage, Janie Resolves To Go And Ask For Money From The Catholic Houses. Elias Has Sent Out Men To Stop Her, So She Leaps Out The Back Window And With A Broken Rib She Swims In The Dark Across The Icy Miramichi River, Doubting Her Own Sanity. Yet, Seeing These People Swayed Into Immoral Actions Because Of Their Desire To Please Others And Their Fear Of Being Outcast, She Thinks To Herself That “…all Her Life She Had Been Forced To Act In A Way Uncommon With Others… Was Sanity Doing What They Did

Who reads River of the Brokenhearted?

Author

Richards, David Adams

Publisher

Doubleday Canada

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385658881

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.65 / 5 (333 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14