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Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford’s latest novel begins: First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later Really, could anyone read those lines and not want to see what follows? Ford gently but steadily builds tension from the opening sentence, wh Leggi tutto

”The world doesn’t usually think about bank robbers as having children--though plenty must. But the children’s story--which mine and my sister’s is--is ours to weigh and apportion and judge as we see it. Years later in college, I read that the great critic Ruskin wrote that composition is the arrang Leggi tutto

Yaaawn.. I must say it is very well written and I could picture all the boring details and bleak scenes.. which seemed to go by at an excruciating, belabored pace. It was like watching a train-wreck in super-duper slow motion, frame-by-frame: Two train-wrecks to be more precise, for this poor little Leggi tutto

Sometimes I feel that the publishing world has a sickly fear of boring the reader. In the YA world, which is the world I inhabit as a writer, the pressure is never-ending for the novel to clip along at a lively pace less you lose your young hyper-active reader. It's almost as if we must do all we ca Leggi tutto

"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." That's the first two lines of the book. Beyond the vast ocean of Saskatchewanian wheat fields, burrowed with the detritus of past lives and half-lives, a fifteen-year-old boy is marooned on a for Leggi tutto

I feel honored when a book teaches me something new about reading, when a writer has the confidence in his story to pull no punches with his writing, trusting in the reader’s intelligence to absorb a story without telling her what she should feel. What Richard Ford teaches me with the exquisite Cana Leggi tutto