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  • By: Richard Ford
  • Narrated by: Adam Sims
  • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)
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By: Richard Ford
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Summary

In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered man, an airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Dell and his twin sister, Berner, could easily see why their mother might have been attracted to him. But their mother Neeva - from an educated, immigrant Jewish family - was shy, artistic and alienated from their father's small-town world of money scrapes and living on the fly. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people.

In the days following the arrest, Dell is saved by a family friend before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across the Montana border into Saskatchewan, his life hurtles towards the unknown, towards a hotel in a deserted town, towards the violent and enigmatic American Arthur Remlinger and towards Canada itself - a landscape of rescue and abandonment. But as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose own past lies on the other side of a border.

In Canada, Richard Ford has created a masterpiece. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity. It questions the fine line between the normal and the extraordinary and the moments that haunt our settled view of the world.

©2012 Richard Ford (P)2018 Audible, Ltd

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Unusual and captivating

This is not an easy story to hear - both from the point of plot and writing. The tempo is slow, every detail is laboriously described, yet the suspense is maintained and you want to know what happens next.
The young protagonist‘s tragic experiences are heart-wrenching.

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Incredibly beautiful and sad

This is most compassionate ,sad and beautiful told story will stay with you forever.Highly recommended.

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How vulnerable are children

Powerful, sensitive, moving. A great mix of thriller and poetic emotion .
There is a loneliness throughout however.

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