Canada
By: Richard Ford
Edition: 1st HarperLuxe ed.
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9780062128515
Subjects: Bank robberies; Fiction; Fugitives from justice; Families; Large type books; Teenage boys; Americans
Description: In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest, Dell is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of a border.
Notes: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2013.