Richard Ford
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Language
English
Description
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 divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle age, 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,...
2) Be mine
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature 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 once more our guide to the great American midway....
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman-were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived 2alone together3 on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most indelible characters in recent American fiction. In the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, Frank Bascombe now sells real estate, as he masters the high-wire act of "normalcy". But during the Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.
7) Wildlife
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy faces adulthood in a small Montana town, observing love, marriage, adultery, the working life, and unemployment.
8) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.
9) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.