Canada

One of his generation’s most eloquent voices. Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times

One of the finest curators of the great American living museum.
Washington Post Book World

North of the Border: Richard Ford
Richard Ford is a great American writer. Ruby Cutolo
Publishers Weekly Full Review

Waking Up to the World's Chaotic Heart
“[R]obust and powerful… [Canada] goes deeper than the spectacle of trauma. Mr. Ford is able to tap into something momentous and elemental about the profound moral chaos behind the actions of seemingly responsible people… the writing is clean and stripped-down… By depicting tragedies without deep roots in reason or purpose, Mr. Ford has dramatized the frightening discovery of the world's anarchic heart. Sam Sacks
The Wall Street Journal Full Review

One considers this book long after it is finished, which may be one of the best standards for literature, or, indeed, a life lived. Rick Bass
The Boston Globe Full Review

Richard Ford in welcome return with Canada
Canada is Ford's first appearance on the new-book shelf in six years. In every way, it was worth the wait.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Full Review

Spare and beautiful. Harvey Freedenberg
Star Tribune Full Review

Canada is a superlatively good book, richly imagined and beautifully fashioned...one is tempted to acclaim it a masterpiece. The final encounter at the close of the book... is one of the most tenderly drawn scenes in modern literature, and could only have been written by a writer of Richard Ford's empathy, insight and technical mastery. John Banville
The Guardian Full Review

Ford manages to resolve the novel in a fashion that is somehow both heartbreaking and heartening, and with Canada as a whole he reasserts his already very secure position as one of America’s finest and truest writers.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Full Review

Richard Ford’s “Canada” Is His Best Novel In Years
Richard Ford returns with one of his most powerful novels yet. Canada is Richard Ford’s best book since Independence Day. Michael Gorra
The Daily Beast Full Review

Told in Ford's exquisitely detailed, unhurried prose…Ford is interested here in the ways snap decisions can bend life in unexpected directions — ''crossing a line and never being able to come back.'' What makes people commit crimes? What are the real consequences? And how do you keep going after everything around you collapses? Canada's characters grapple with this last question in very different ways, and the answers they come up with define the rest of their lives, along with this quietly thoughtful book. Rob Brunner
Entertainment Weekly Full Review

Richard Ford is one of the great American post-war writers.
Foyles Full Review

Ford’s genius at capturing human frailty and its pitiful disguises burns through this novel. Lucy Daniel
the Telegraph

A surprisingly different kind of great Richard Ford novel... and one that casts its spell very slowly and with a steady cumulative power.

Sean O'Hagan
the Observer

Canada is a painful, unique novel from the pinnacle of which all observed life seems to be laid out for us. Phillip Hensher
the Independent

Ford is possessed of a writer’s greatest gifts...meticulousness of style, along with a finely tuned ear and a steel-trap memory. A hearty meal of a novel from Richard Ford...represents a warm moment in American letters.
Lorrie Moore
the New Yorker

Points North
Canada is a masterwork by one of our finest writers working at the top of his form. Andre Dubus III
The New York Times Book Review Full Review