First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later. In 1956, Del Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered man, an airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Del and his twin sister, Berner, could easily see why their mother might have been attracted to him. But their mother Neeva - from an educated, immigrant, Jewish family - was shy, artistic and alienated from their father's small-town world of money scrapes and living on-the-fly. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Del's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest, Del and Berner lock themselves inside the house and wait for the friend their mother said would come. When no-one does, Berner runs away.
One of the true works of art of our benighted era John Banville, Irish Times on The Lay of the Land My great book of the year ... so wonderfully written in every breath of every sentence Hermione Lee, Guardian A massive, ruminative, poignant and cartartic novel ... it is a masterly account of a modulating adult life. Ford's canvas is huge, but his wealth of subtle detail remains astonishingly vivid Independent on Sunday Wistful, bittersweet and often very funny ... seems to locate all the quiet despairs and hopes of the human condition with exquisite precision Daily Telegraph
Title: Canada
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Richard Ford
ISBN 13: 9781408815168
ISBN 10: 1408815168
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm