Canada
by:
Richard Ford (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408836569 (1408836564)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Canada
Ich habe mich sehr auf dieses Buch gefreut, weil ich im Vorwege so ein gutes und optimistisches Gefühl für dieses Werk hatte. Nach dem Lesen der Lektüre bin ein keineswegs enttäuscht worden, auch wenn es jetzt nicht zwingend zu den Lieblingsbüchern der letzten Monate zählte. Gleichwohl ein beherzt...
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...
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