Canada de Richard Ford

Canada

Autor Richard Ford

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mai 2012

La o primă vedere, Canada pare a fi cronica unui jaf armat și a consecințelor sale imediate, un parcurs narativ ce promite tensiunea unui roman de suspans. Totuși, ceea ce descoperă cititorul sub suprafața acestui eveniment violent este o meditație profundă și contemplativă despre pierderea inocenței și despre liniile invizibile care separă moralitatea de supraviețuire. Notăm cu interes modul în care Richard Ford alege să dezvăluie deznodământul încă din prima frază, mutând accentul de pe „ce se întâmplă” pe „cum se transformă” conștiința tânărului Dell Parsons după ce părinții săi trec pragul neiertător al ilegalității. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în contrastul dintre vastitatea cerului preriei canadiene și spațiul interior claustrofob al unui adolescent abandonat. Stilul are ceva din proza densă și orientată spre peisaj a lui Joe Wilkins în The Entire Sky, fără să fie o imitație — Ford păstrează o sobrietate specifică, o distanțare aproape clinică ce amplifică impactul emoțional al fiecărei revelații. Dacă în seria The Bascombe Novels, autorul explora crizele existențiale ale maturității americane, aici el se întoarce la rădăcinile traumei, investigând, similar modului din Between Them, legăturile misterioase și adesea fragile ale familiei. Este un roman al granițelor traversate, atât geografice, cât și psihologice, unde peisajul din Saskatchewan devine un personaj în sine, impunător și indiferent la tragedia umană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062128515
ISBN-10: 0062128515
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperLargePrint

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza psihologică rafinată și studiile de caracter minuțioase. Canada nu este doar povestea unei familii destrămate, ci un exercițiu de stil despre cum ne reconstruim identitatea în urma unui dezastru. Câștigul cititorului este o experiență literară imersivă, oferită de un maestru al literaturii americane contemporane, într-o ediție în limba engleză care păstrează întreaga cadență a textului original.

Despre autor

Richard Ford (născut în 1944) este un romancier și nuvelist american de excepție, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a surprinde esența vieții clasei de mijloc și peisajele interioare ale Americii profunde. Este faimos pentru ciclul de romane care îl au ca protagonist pe Frank Bascombe, începând cu The Sportswriter și continuând cu Independence Day, lucrare ce i-a adus premiul Pulitzer în 1996. Opera sa, care include și colecția Rock Springs, explorează teme precum izolarea, memoria și legăturile de familie, Ford fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți stiliști ai literaturii contemporane de limbă engleză.

Descriere scurtă

The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard 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.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of a happy, knowable life is forever shattered. A family friend spirits Dell across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him to a better life. There, Dell is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic American whose suave reserve masks a violent nature. Undone by the calamity of his parents' arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew and loved. But his search for grace and peace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with Remlinger.
A 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, resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic.

Recenzii

“This is a brilliant and engrossing portrait of a fragile American family and the fragile consciousness of a teenage boy. It is also fascinating in the way it reveals the plot in the opening page and then winds backwards, offering a more and more intimate version of the story.” — Colm Toibin
“Pure vocal grace, quiet humor, precise and calm observation.” — The New Yorker
“[Canada]confirms his position as one of the finest stylists and most humane storytellers in America… his most elegiac and profound book…” — Washington Post
“Robust and powerful… Ford is able to tap into something momentous and elemental about the profound moral chaos behind the actions of seemingly responsible people… Ford has dramatized the frightening discovery of the world’s anarchic heart.” — Wall Street Journal
“A triumph of voice.... The writing... is spare, but heartbreaking.” — USA Today
“Richard Ford returns with one of his most powerful novels yet…Ford has never written better…Canada is Richard Ford’s best book since Independence Day, and despite its robbery and killings it too depends on its voice, a voice oddly calm and marked by the spare grandeur of its landscape.” — Daily Beast
“Awe-inspiring… The laconic, grief-stricken voice of Dell, looking back on his past, trying to make some kind sense of what happened when his family imploded, keeps you turning pages, as do the quiet, thought-provoking revelations that Ford drops in throughout.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“Told in Ford’s exquisitely detailed, unhurried prose…Ford is interested here in the ways snap decisions can bend life in unexpected directions... Canada’s characters grapple with this... and the answers they come up with define the rest of their lives, along with this quietly thoughtful book.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Masterly… in Ford’s American tragedy, filled with lost innocence and inevitable violence—a rusting carnival, a rabbit caught in a coyote’s jaws—geography feels a lot like fate.” — Vogue
“One of the most memorably heartbreaking novels of the year.” — Christian Science Monitor
“[Ford’s] newest novel Canada, shows an artist in full command of his craft—sparsely elegant and bracingly direct, with a refreshing lack of irony or tricks.” — Men’s Journal
“Marvelous…Canada is a masterpiece of a story with rich language and dialogue filled with suspense, bleakness, human frailties and flaws, and a little bit of hope seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy whose emotions seem often aligned with the desolate landscape of its setting.” — The Oregonian (Portland)
“A must-read. . . . Canada reminds us why Ford is considered one of this country’s most distinguished writers.” — St. Paul Pioneer Press
“[A] deeply felt and magnificently imagined work…With Canada, Ford has given us his deepest exploration yet of weakness and betrayal set amid a boy’s coming of age. It is a memorable novel, suffused with love, sorrow and regret.” — Austin American-Statesman
“[A] novel about big truths told by a writer with clear vision…solid, satisfying craftsmanship. This is a Richard Ford novel in the tradition of his earlier work. It also is a coming-of-age story, and a story about the discovery of identity.” — Washington Independent Review of Books

Notă biografică

Richard Ford is the author of The Sportswriter; Independence Day, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Lay of the Land; and the New York Times bestseller Canada. His short story collections include the bestseller Let Me Be Frank With You, Sorry for Your Trouble, Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Kristina Ford.

Descriere

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First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.

It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal life forever. In the days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of the border.