Canada

Canada – Richard Ford Richard Ford's daring use of the first person narrative to relate Dell Parsons' harrowing story of his dislocated family and his subsequent exile to Canada lends a sense of immediacy to a novel brimming with existential angst. In spite of this, Ford masterfully manages to maintain a high degree of credibility in Dell's rendition of the facts underlying his family tragedy. His sense of lucidity is shot through with a convincing sense of adolescent wistfulness that haunts him until his twilight years. A powerful novel. Alfred, Decitre Langues du Monde