Richard Ford, Author . Knopf $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-41212-7
Tracing the blueprint of human interaction in this latest collection of nine short stories and a novella, Ford signals the master text of lust standing behind the multitude of small sins he so tersely and poignantly chronicles. To err is human, and,
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Richard Ford, Author , Knopf $26.95 (485p) ISBN 978-0-6794-5468-7
Frank Bascombe meticulously maps New Jersey with a realtor's rapacious eye, and he is an equally intense topographer of his teeming inner landscape. In the first of Ford's magisterial Bascombe novels (The Sportswriter
, 1986), Frank staved...
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Richard Ford, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (255p) ISBN 978-0-679-45469-4
Ford's first book since his bestselling and award-winning Independence Day offers three long stories (their action is too concentrated for novellas) in which men try to come to terms, uneasily, with the countless imponderables of a woman's heart....
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Richard Ford, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-73518-2
In this sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford follows his middle-aged American everyman, Frank Bascombe, through the transformative events of a Fourth of July weekend. (July)
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Richard Ford, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-73447-5
Joe, now an adult, recalls confronting his parents' shortcomings at age 16 when his unemployed father took up firefighting and his mother began an affair. According to PW , Ford has a ``remarkable ability to capture distinctive voices'' and ``his...
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Richard Ford, Author Penguin Books $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-84527-9
Academic anthologies, no matter how massive, tend to paint literature with a broad and representative brush. ``Best-of'' collections may dabble exclusively and exhaustively in a particular decade or school. Happily, Granta 's compendium of recent...
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Richard Ford, Author Alfred A. Knopf $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-49265-8
Ford is the author now of five novels and a book of short stories, but he is probably best known for The Sportswriter (1988), widely praised as a realistic, compassionate and humorous view of American life as seen through the eyes of a highly...
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Richard Ford, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (375p) ISBN 978-0-394-74325-7
Ralph Bascombe, the brooding antihero here, is not a Walter Matthaustyle, cigar-smoking sportswriter. Rather he resembles John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom (sans cynicism). Bascombe has decided in his ""mid-life crisis'' years to write heartwarming...
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Richard Ford, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $0 (235p) ISBN 978-0-87113-159-1
The stories in this collection read like textbook exercises in classic short story form: in each, a lifetime of sadness is suddenly crystallized around a momentan image, a discovery, a confrontationafter which a life has been irrevocably, if at...
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Richard Ford, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $18.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-87113-348-9
Set in Montana, this precisely structured novel owes much to the style and subjects of Ford's praised short-story collection, Rock Springs . For a few days during the fall of 1960, 16-year-old Joe confronts his parents' frailties when his father...
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Richard Ford, Author, Joe Barrett, Read by , read by Joe Barrett. Random House Audio $59.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3976-3
Frank Bascombe, Ford's former fiction writer and sports journalist who we have seen age and change since Ford introduced him in 1986's The Sportswriter
, must be one of the most difficult fictional characters to bring to audio life. His...
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Richard Ford. Ecco, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-169204-8
The first novel in six years from Pulitzer Prize winner (for Independence Day) Ford is a tragic rural farrago composed of two awkwardly joined halves. In the late 1950s, in Great Falls, Mont., teenage twins Dell and Berner Parson have different...
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Richard Ford. Ecco, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-169206-2
Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land, continues to reflect on the meaning of existence in these four absorbing, funny, and often profound novellas. The collection is set in New Jersey in the...
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Edited by Don George and Samantha Forge. Lonely Planet, $15.99 trade paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-74360-360-4
From Cold War Yugoslavia to modern-day Yemen, Lonely Planet’s latest collection of nonfiction travel stories doesn’t leave a stone or continent unturned. Readers will relish Simon Winchester’s boyhood tale of a near-death experience in the Arctic...
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Richard Ford. Ecco, $25.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-266188-3
Ford vividly and gracefully preserves his memories of parents, his life “between them,” and the small Southern towns that provided the limits and the possibilities of their lives. His parents—traveling salesman father Parker, and housewife mother...
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Richard Ford. Ecco, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-296980-4
Pulitzer-winner Ford’s middling collection (after Let Me Be Frank with You) showcases men experiencing glimmers of epiphanies amid the process of mourning. In “The Run of Yourself,” a lawyer from New Orleans lives a quiet existence in Maine after...
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Richard Ford. Ecco, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-169208-6
Ford finds Frank Bascombe, star of The Sportswriter, still searching for the meaning of life in his appealing latest. Frank, 74 and twice divorced, stays buoyant despite some mortal despair by indulging in clichés such as falling for a younger...
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