Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford discusses his eagerly awaited new novel, Canada. A visionary tale of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity, Canada tells the story of Dell Parsons, on the run after his parents rob a bank in Montana. It has been described by the Washington Post as: ‘His most elegiac and profound book yet ... Marilynne Robinson (without the theology) and Cormac McCarthy (without the gore).’ Ford is the author of seven previous novels including the Frank Bascombe trilogy The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, considered to be a modern American masterpiece. The event will be chaired by Dr Ian McGuire, author of the campus novel Incredible Bodies and co-director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.