This novel progresses smoothly, although slowly at first, with the skilled hand of Mr. Ford. Even when, sometimes, the actual point of the story is lost in the extraneous and often superfluous details that are offered, the reader will be consistently drawn back to the tale by this gifted storyteller...
I went back and forth between a 2 and 3 but ultimately I was too bored for a 3. My favorite part of this book was the pov which was very unique and included interesting foreshadowing. p. 408
I thought I would be reading a story set in historical Canada with some actual Canadian history, something I don't know too much about. Have no clue as to why it was titled Canada as it's used only as a backdrop. It could've just as easily been titled Montana. Final Verdict: Disappointing.
Canada is the story of Dell, a boy growing up in America in the nineteen sixties, whose parents try to rob a bank and make a mess of it. They're imprisoned and Dell only avoids institutionalisation by fleeing across the border to Canada where he is given a kind of refuge by Arthur Remlinger, the bro...
”The world doesn’t usually think about bank robbers as having children--though plenty must. But the children’s story--which mine and my sister’s is--is ours to weigh and apportion and judge as we see it. Years later in college, I read that the great critic Ruskin wrote that composition is the arrang...
Well written character study with a slow but tense plot line. Both a study of place, the northern midwest, and the human missteps that cause surprising damage. Despite the bleak and haunting setting of small farm-town America, this book has a noir, almost urban, feel to it, with shady and ill-inte...
This was a good, well-paced story, with some interesting characters. As an ex-pat with a life I never imagined (I don't mean that necessarily in a positive way) and a lot of 'ifs,' it was interesting to me how the main character made peace with his life, which was as much about choices as about fate...
Ford has a way of narrating ordinary lives with extraordinary voice, but this did not resonate for me like his short stories or Independence Day. The premise intrigued, however, and I remained more engaged than not, especially since I get how somebody could rationalize robbing a bank and happen to k...
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