Harper Perennial, 2011. — 624 p. — ISBN: 0062020412 (ISBN13: 9780062020413). This vital and compelling collection of stories about work, compiled by novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford, explores tales of how we Americans are employed; how we find work and leave it; how it excites, ennobles, occasionally debilitates, but often defines us. Contributing writers for Blue...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007. — 286 p. — ISBN: 0747585288 (ISBN13: 9780747585282) One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures. With remarkable insight and honesty, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage....
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0747584966 (ISBN13: 9780747584964) Two men, one in search of a woman, the other in search of his true self, meet in a bizarre household on an uncharted island hideaway in the Mississippi. Richard Ford's first novel is brutal, yet often moving and funny.
Ecco, 2017. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0062661906 (ISBN13: 9780062661906) From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love. How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with...
Canada is a 2012 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel follows 15-year-old Dell Parsons, who must learn to fend for himself after his parents are arrested for robbing a bank. The book also re-visits Great Falls, Montana, a setting that Ford frequently uses in his work.
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later....
Vintage, 1995. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0679762108 (ISBN13: 9780679762102) As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people - men, mostly - who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a...
Vintage, 1996. — 451 p. — ISBN: 9780679735182 Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006. — 357 p. — ISBN: 0307267121 (ISBN13: 9780307267122) A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father -Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential...
Ecco, 2014. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0061692069 (ISBN13: 9780061692062) A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land In his trio of...
Vintage, 2003. — 245 p. — ISBN: 0099448971 (ISBN13: 9780099448976) In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
Vintage, 2010. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0307763714 (ISBN13: 9780307763716) In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. — 159 p. — ISBN: 0747585237 (ISBN13: 9780747585237) In the autumn of 1960, Joe Brinson and his parents move to the edge of the Rocky Mountains to cash in on the promise of the American frontier. But when Joe's father leaves home to fight the forest fires and his mother meets an older man, Joe finds his life suddenly changing beyond recognition.
Vintage, 1998. — 242 p. — ISBN: 0679776680 (ISBN13: 9780679776680) The Womanizer Jealous Occidentals In his second collection of short fiction, Richard Ford captures relationships at complex and essential moments of truth — exploring the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and the need for reliance...
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