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It questions the fine line between the normal and the extraordinary, and the moments that haunt our settled view of the world. After a fiveyear hiatus, an undisputed american master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boys family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in. Canada isbn 9781408836569 pdf epub richard ford ebook. Ford is the 2016 recipient of the asturias award for literature in spain, and he lives in east boothbay, maine with his wife, kristina ford. Canada is and i dont say this very often a contemporary masterpiece. Distinguished american writer richard ford is best known for a trilogy of prizewinning novels featuring one of the most unforgettable, deeply resonant characters in contemporary american fiction.
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Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read canada. Richard ford is the pulitzer prizewinning author of the bascombe novels and the new york times bestselling canada and let me be frank with you. Told in spare, elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic. Frank bascombe, a middleaged everyman from suburban new jersey. There is only one brief reference to canada in part one and the action does not move to canada until part two, by which time you are half way through the book. Buy the kobo ebook book canada by richard ford at indigo.
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Canada richard ford hardcover harpercollins publishers. The only writer ever to win both the pulitzer prize and penfaulkner award for a single novel independence day richard ford follows the completion of his acclaimed bascombe trilogy with canada. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity. Richard ford books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography barnes. Richard ford, born february 16, 1944, jackson, mississippi, u. He summarizes the plot of canada in the first two sentences of. Canada by richard ford overdrive rakuten overdrive.
Bordering montana and north dakota, it is one of two canadian provinces that is completely landlocked alberta is the other one and has. Canada is a comingofage novel about a young man living in montana whose family falls apart when his parents rob a bank and he is sent to canada to live. Pulitzer prize winning author richard ford sits down with wsjs barabara chai to talk about his is new novel canada, his first book in six years. So, tantalisingly, begins richard fords seventh novel, canada, a big book that takes its time to tell the story of how 15yearold dell parsonss life was temporarily derailed by a single. Canada, a novel by richard ford the new york times. He is the author of the renowned short story collections rock springs and a multitude of sins. Ive read communist by richard ford three times in the past year, the most recent being a minute ago.
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