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Richard Ford
Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam…
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Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Frank reflects that now there are fewer opportunities left in life to…
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This is one of the most acclaimed novels of the last two decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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In his first volume of short fiction since the acclaimed Rock Springs , Ford creates a portrait gallery of male characters who are as wounded, as rueful, and a touchingly…
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Originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
A collection of stories about work which chronicles how Americans are employed, how they find work and leave it, refuse it or scorn it, how it defines, fascinates, frustrates and…
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This trilogy– The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land –charts the life and times of one of the most enduring characters in modern fiction: Frank Bascombe. With…
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. This is a story…
‘My name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter’ - one of the most famous lines in American literature opens this classic, inimitable tour de force
