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'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVER Over the course of four
celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford
has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American
life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often
laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide
to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man
who has occupied many colourful lives — sportswriter, father,
husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent — Bascombe finds
himself in the most sorrowing role of all; caregiver to his son,
Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyssey to Mount
Rushmore, Frank in typical Bascombe fashion faces down the
mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts
what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable
novel, Richard Ford puts on display the prose, wit and intelligence
that make him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers. Be
Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered
world.
Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano
The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies.
Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and
short-story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First
published by Granta Books in 1992, it became the definitive
anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the
twentieth century - an 'exemplary choice' in the words of the
Washington Post - with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty,
John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating
how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. Along
with The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, this book
constitutes an important reflection and judgement of recent
American writing - as well as the superb pleasure yielded by the
stories themselves.
'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master
craftsman' Sunday Times 'An American master' Daily Telegraph A
woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in
New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A group of
friends, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their
number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter
revelations about their shared past emerge. Two teenage boys sit in
a drive-in, the air thick with the scent of gin and popcorn and
longing. A visionary collection of luminous stories, imprinting
landscape, and great moments in small lives - and of the people we
carry with us long after they are gone - Sorry For Your Trouble
reconfirms Richard Ford as the master of contemporary American
fiction. 'He writes about human beings and their disappointments
with unfailing insight and, while he never mocks his characters, is
keenly aware of the absurdity involved in being alive ... Exemplary
in its nuanced understanding of the relationships between men and
women' Observer
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Be Mine
Richard Ford
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'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVER Over the course of four
celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford
has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American
life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often
laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide
to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man
who has occupied many colourful lives — sportswriter, father,
husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent — Bascombe finds
himself in the most sorrowing role of all; caregiver to his son,
Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyssey to Mount
Rushmore, Frank in typical Bascombe fashion faces down the
mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts
what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable
novel, Richard Ford puts on display the prose, wit and intelligence
that make him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers. Be
Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered
world.
It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of
optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life.
Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank
reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in
life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is
not to be. In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and
first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of
possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe
novel, Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry
precision. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly
funny, "The Lay of the Land" is a modern American masterpiece.
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love
Edna Akin and Parker Ford married young. For fifteen years they traveled the American south of the 1930s as Parker went about his work as a traveling salesman, selling laundry starch. Life was hotels rooms, roadside bars and always each other. Then a single child was born to them, and a life went a new way.
Blending his parents' lives, drawing on memory, history, anecdote, Richard Ford's Between Them is a stirring contemplation of love's mystery and of loss.
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 son, and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring.
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Light Years (Paperback)
James Salter; Introduction by Richard Ford
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Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred
around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable
friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or
sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread
through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will
eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty,
tender and resonant, Light Years is an exquisite novel of lost
lives and the elusiveness of happiness.
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Canada (Paperback)
Richard Ford
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First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then
about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts
and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank.
They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions
alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal life forever. In the
days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to
arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the
unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic
Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell
discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the
only one whose past lies on the other side of the border.
The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and
where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the
sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family
hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson
watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at
the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that
remain even when love dies.
Targeted at both intrepid travellers and 'readers at home', this
two-volume account of Spanish history, topography and culture by
Richard Ford (1796 1858) combines the rigour of a gazetteer with
the humour and pace of a private travel diary. First published in
1845, as part of John Murray's series of guidebooks, the work made
an immediate impact upon the reading public, and it was celebrated
in the press as the 'most comprehensive and accurate account of
that country' hitherto produced. Through a series of hand-picked
routes, readers encounter an array of landscapes and experiences as
varied as coastal Cadiz, lively Barcelona, bull fights, beggars and
pig farming. Opening with a guide to the country, its currency,
'gesticulations' and 'slang', Volume 1 leads the reader from
Andalucia to Granada and on to Catalonia. The result is an engaging
account that will be of interest to modern tourists and historians
alike.
Targeted at both intrepid travellers and 'readers at home', this
two-volume account of Spanish history, topography and culture by
Richard Ford (1796 1858) combines the rigour of a gazetteer with
the humour and pace of a private travel diary. First published in
1845, as part of John Murray's series of guidebooks, the work made
an immediate impact upon the reading public, and it was celebrated
in the press as the 'most comprehensive and accurate account of
that country' hitherto produced. Starting in the Kingdom of Leon,
and again using a series of hand-picked routes, Volume 2 leads
readers to the pilgrim shrine of Santiago de Compostela and through
Galicia and the Basque provinces, introducing them to castles,
universities, art collections and the 'inhospitality of Madrid'.
The result is an engaging account that will be of interest to
modern tourists and historians alike.
Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short-story
writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short
Story, which Granta Books published in 1992. It became the
definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last
half of the twentieth century. In the fourteen years since, Ford
has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting
new favourites. This new collection, again of more than forty
writers, expands Ford's original choice to include stories that he
regretted overlooking first time around as well as many by a new
generation of writers, among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz,
Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberg, Matt Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri and
Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) was
in the first volume. Published to critical acclaim in hardback in
2007, this book is an essential companion volume to the first
collection.
The landscape of "Women with Men" ranges from the northern plains
of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago. The
tragedies that stalk the characters are unfolded with an indelible
wit and clarity. So merciless is Ford's lingering gaze upon human,
mostly male, weakness, so understanding his eye for the unravelling
threads of human love, that this collection of novellas seems only
to broaden the reputation and the following of one of the
outstanding writers of our time.
Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories
narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank
resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived -
seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane
Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives
unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe. With a
flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these
stories range over the full complement of universal subjects:
ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle - the
tumult of the world we live in.
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his
career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in
New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But, over
one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden,
bewildering engagement with life. "Independence Day" is a moving,
peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered
consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations,
conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception.
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American Solitudes (Hardcover)
Jean-Luc Bertini; Foreword by Richard Ford; Afterword by Gilles Mora
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This book stands out from the crowd in providing a fresh original
perspective on the relatively underexplored area of a leader's
reputation. Reputation is a consequence of everything you say or do
and no other tangible or intangible asset is worth as much as your
reputation or has such a positive or detrimental impact on your
career. Many studies reveal that we care more about what other
people think about us than we do about what may have actually
happened in reality, and yet there is so little written about the
subject. This book gets to grips with how our reputation is formed
in the real world and what really makes the difference in winning a
good reputation and in losing a good reputation. The book uncovers
the impact of the 'secret vocabulary' used in organizations to
shape reputations, and offers tips and advice about how to take
control and manage your reputation, and how to develop a personal
brand to shape your future career direction with integrity and
authenticity. Dr Richard Ford is one of the UK's leading leadership
coaching and assessment psychologists, who has helped hundreds of
senior leaders and potential leaders to develop successful careers,
and now Dr Ford shares 35 years of learning about what really
happens to help you achieve career success.
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