Canada

Try it Now Firm without compromise. Cancel whenever you want.

Synopsis

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

So 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.   

This 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.

In 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. 

Undone 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.

A 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.

Chapters

  • 9780062189455 001

    Duration: 41s
  • 9780062189455 002

    Duration: 10min
  • 9780062189455 003

    Duration: 07min
  • 9780062189455 004

    Duration: 16min
  • 9780062189455 005

    Duration: 09min
  • 9780062189455 006

    Duration: 17min
  • 9780062189455 007

    Duration: 15min
  • 9780062189455 008

    Duration: 19min
  • 9780062189455 009

    Duration: 10min
  • 9780062189455 010

    Duration: 07min
  • 9780062189455 011

    Duration: 20min
  • 9780062189455 012

    Duration: 14min
  • 9780062189455 013

    Duration: 01min
  • 9780062189455 014

    Duration: 09min
  • 9780062189455 015

    Duration: 03min
  • 9780062189455 016

    Duration: 16min
  • 9780062189455 017

    Duration: 12min
  • 9780062189455 018

    Duration: 03min
  • 9780062189455 019

    Duration: 06min
  • 9780062189455 020

    Duration: 05min
page 1 from 4