Review: Canada, by Richard Ford
Canada by Richard FordMy rating: 2 of 5 stars Drawn by the title, and the author’s pedigree, I came to the novel Canada as a Canadian, anticipating a story illuminating this vast and diverse country and people. Instead, what I came upon was an author trying too hard, and unsuccessfully, to channel the likes of F. Scott FitzGerald or John Steinbeck, carrying with him a typically American ignorance of Canada, its people, its culture, its…