Canada Paperback - 2013
by Ford, Richard
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- Good
- Paperback
The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel ("Independence Day") Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boy's family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace.
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- Title Canada
- Author Ford, Richard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco, New York
- Date 2013-01-22
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0061692034-3-30189132
- ISBN 9780061692031 / 0061692034
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Suspense fiction, Teenage boys
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
When fifteen-year-old Del Parsons' parents rob a North Dakota bank, his normal life is altered forever, and a threshold is crossed that can never be uncrossed. His parents' imprisonment threatens a turbulent and uncertain future for Del and his twin sister, Berner. Fierce with resentment, Berner flees their Montana home for California. But Del is not completely abandoned. A family friend spirits him across the Canadian border toward safety and a better life. There, afloat on the Saskatchewan prairie, Del finds only cold refuge from Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and alluring American fugitive with a dark and violent past.
Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery, Del struggles to remake himself. But his search for grace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with the forces of darkness that shadow us all.
A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic.
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- New York Times Book Review, 03/03/2013, Page 24