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Richard Ford, the only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day), will read from and sign his new novel Canada ($26.99 HarperCollins). This long-awaited book delivers a haunting and elemental story about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage ... (more)boy’s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace. A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic.

"One of his generation's most eloquent voices." —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "One of the finest curators of the great American living museum." —Washington Post Book World The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard ... (more)Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boy's family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace. A powerful and unforgettable tale of the violence lurking at the heart of the world, Richard Ford's Canada will resonate long and loud for readers of stark and sweeping novels of American life, from the novels of Cheever and Carver to the works of Philip Roth, Charles Frazier, Richard Russo, and Jonathan Franzen.