Paperback edition of Ford's latest novel, about a young man whose parents commit a bank robbery, and who goes on the run to Canada. Ford is a master of American fiction alongside Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and John Updike, and this new package features a cut-out maple leaf on the cover. Ford's last novel, }The Lay Of The Land{, sold 60,000 copies. 'A brilliant and engrossing portrait of a fragile American family and the fragile consciousness of a teenage boy' Colm Toibin, }Metro{