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Richard Ford

Richard Ford is the author of the Bascombe novels, which include The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day—the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award—and The Lay of the Land, as well as the short story collections Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford.



 

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Canada
Canada
Richard Ford
  • Hardcover
  • 9780061692048
  • 5/22/2012
  • $27.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Canada
Canada
Richard Ford
  • E-Book
  • 9780062096807
  • 5/22/2012
  • $13.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
Canada LP
Canada LP
Richard Ford
  • Large Print
  • 9780062128515
  • 5/22/2012
  • $27.99 ($29.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar
Richard Ford
  • Trade PB
  • 9780062020413
  • 4/19/2011
  • $16.99 ($17.99 Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar
Richard Ford
  • E-Book
  • 9780062087119
  • 4/19/2011
  • $13.99 ( Can.)
  • Marketing Code: AV
 

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"Willa Cather once wrote that 'a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.' By that measure, and any other, Richard Ford is doing his very best in his extraordinary new novel. and he's doing it with a level of linguistic mastery that is rivaled by few, if any, in American letters today.Canada is a tale of what happens when we cross certain lines and can never go back. It is an examination of the redemptive power of articulated memory, and it is a masterwork by one of our finest writers working at the top of his form."


- Andre Dubus III, New York Times Book Review
"This is a brilliant and engrossing portrait of a fragile American family and the fragile consciousness of a teenage boy. It is also fascinating in the way it reveals the plot in the opening page and then winds backwards, offering a more and more intimate version of the story."


- Colm Toibin
"Pure vocal grace, quiet humor, precise and calm observation."


- The New Yorker
"[Canada]confirms his position as one of the finest stylists and most humane storytellers in America. his most elegiac and profound book."


- Washington Post
"Mr. Ford has fashioned an engaging, ruminative voice for Dell.capable of capturing the vernacular of everyday, while addressing the big philosophical questions of choice and fate. It's a voice capable of conjuring both the soporific routines of daily life in 1960 in Great Falls, before Dell's parents turn to crime, and the harrowing, Dickensian experiences he is subjected to after their arrest. Mr. Ford does a masterly job of turning the implausible into the inexorable."


- New York Times
"Robust and powerful. Ford is able to tap into something momentous and elemental about the profound moral chaos behind the actions of seemingly responsible people. Ford has dramatized the frightening discovery of the world's anarchic heart."


- Wall Street Journal
"A triumph of voice.... The writing... is spare, but heartbreaking."


- USA Today
"Richard Ford returns with one of his most powerful novels yet.Ford has never written better.Canada is Richard Ford's best book since Independence Day, and despite its robbery and killings it too depends on its voice, a voice oddly calm and marked by the spare grandeur of its landscape."


- Daily Beast
"Masterly. in Ford's American tragedy, filled with lost innocence and inevitable violence-a rusting carnival, a rabbit caught in a coyote's jaws-geography feels a lot like fate."


- Vogue
"Ford excels on a canvas that lends itself to sparse, weighted dialogue and observation.Winsome, complex and gritty, Dell represents the quintessential voice of one of the best American novelists of our time. Canada is Ford's first appearance on the new-book shelf in six years. In every way, it was worth the wait."


- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"From landscapes to motivations, all things are described in great, often beautiful, detail."


- Newark Star Ledger
"With Canada, Ford has trumped himself, winning critical raves for the rarest of literary commodities: a grippingly told popular novel that rewards serious, grown-up attention. In its 420 pages, Canada follows the lingering, adult consequences of crime. It bears down on moral and emotional questions. It displays Ford's uncanny power to suggest a place, (the treeless borderland of Saskatchewan and Montana) and to create believable characters whose extreme acts test their souls, but never test a reader's sense of plausibility."


- New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Ford really excels.in his virtuoso command of narrative suspense. He makes us wait....Ford is deliberately playing with his reader, almost showing off: look how much I can divulge, spin out, or hold back and still keep you hooked. Some readers may be irritated by this technique as overly contrived; most, however, will find it dexterous and artful. Whichever the case, Ford leaves us in no doubt about his iron grip on his book's pace and rhythm . . .

"Each part of Canada is superb in its own way. . . . A serious artist, Ford is regularly willing to risk sounding earnest or even portentous. While his fiction invariably delivers a lot of pleasure, it's clear that he's not just writing for fun."


- New York Review of Books