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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Mouse (Hardcover)
Richard Ford Burley
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R760
Discovery Miles 7 600
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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.
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Wildlife (Paperback)
Richard Ford
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R414
R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Carey Mulligan and Jake
Gyllenhaal Full of prose that makes the reader shiver, Wildlife is
a rich and readable story...It leaves a sense of hope, a conviction
that life is worth living.--Chicago Sun-Times When Joe Brinson was
sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the
setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed
author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and
family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point,
Wildlife--first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990 and now
reissued as a Grove Press paperback--is a book whose spare poetry
and expansive vision established it as an American classic.
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.
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. A
refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter, an
unhappy girlfriend and a stolen Mercedes; a boy watching his family
dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; two men and a woman
swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten
their luck. "Rock Springs" is a masterpiece of taut narration,
cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like
a kind of grace.
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