{"product_id":"canada-a-haunting-coming-of-age-literary-novel-of-family-bonds-fractured-by-bank-robbery-and-tragedy","title":"Canada: A Haunting Coming of Age Literary Novel of Family Bonds Fractured by Bank Robbery and Tragedy","description":"\"First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.”\nSo begins Canada, 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.\nThis 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.\nIn 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.\nUndone 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.\nA 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0061692034\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0061692034.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ford, Richard\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43715022553149,"sku":"BVV.0061692034.G","price":6.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0061692034-0.jpg?v=1790288536","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/canada-a-haunting-coming-of-age-literary-novel-of-family-bonds-fractured-by-bank-robbery-and-tragedy","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}