{"product_id":"canada-9780061692031","title":"Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins \u003cem\u003eCanada\u003c\/em\u003e, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen\/Faulkner Award for a single novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Dell Parsons, whose parents rob a bank and fracture his life into a before and an after, crossing the threshold that cannot be uncrossed. After his parents' arrest and imprisonment, Del and Berner, his twin sister, face a blank future of foster care and social services visits. Berner, willful and burning with anger, runs away - orphaning Del completely. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of his abandonment, a family friend intervenes, spiriting Del across the Montana\/Saskatchewan border. There, in a dilapidated town floating in the sea of the Canadian prairie, he's taken in by Arthur Remlinger - an enigmatic, charismatic man whose own past exists on the other side of a similarly uncrossable border. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndone by the calamity of his parents' robbery, Del struggles under the vastness of the prairie sky and the stark, unforgiving landscape to realign his sense of self and his perception of the parents he thought he knew, even as he moves on an inexorable collision course with the slow-simmering violence trembling just beneath Arthur Remlinger's cool reserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA resonant and luminous masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision, CANADA is an elemental novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost, and of the mysterious and powerful bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose but rich with emotional clarity, lyrical precision, and an acute sense of the grandeur of living, it is a masterpiece from one of the greatest American writers alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFord, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Ford\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/em\u003e. He is winner of the Prix Femina in France, the 2019 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain. He is also the author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eCanada\u003c\/em\u003e. His story collections include the bestseller \u003cem\u003eLet Me Be Frank with You, Rock Springs, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eA Multitude of Sins.\u003c\/em\u003e He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526763942162,"sku":"9780061692031","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b0bf12a1-4525-4e7d-8141-e23af59ced21.jpg?v=1731283036","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/canada-9780061692031","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}