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The sportswriter ebook by richard ford rakuten kobo. Richard ford, canada, author, writers at work roundtable, whitney terrell, umkc english department pulitzer prizewinning author richard ford discussed his new novel canada the story of a teenager who flees his montana home and begins a new life on the saskatchewan prairie after his parents are arrested for bank robbery. It questions the fine line between the normal and the extraordinary, and the moments that haunt our settled view of the world. Richard ford was born in jackson, mississippi in 1944. Ford has the confidence to title a novel canada, then take the reader to page 2 in a 418page book before dell sets foot in desolate saskatchewan.
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