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Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the celebrated fictional landscape that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe In his trio of critically acclaimed, bestselling novels--The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/ Faulkner-winning Independence Day, an ...Show more
Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In each of these tales, master storyteller Richard Ford is drawn to the themes of intimacy, love, and their failures. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound; an exacting career woman celebrates Christmas with her adamantly post-nuclear family; a couple weekending in M ...Show more
Piece Of My Heart by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the Mis ...Show more
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 watch ...Show more
Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The god of small stories - A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'An American master' Daily TelegraphA 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 w ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Sportswriter by Richard Ford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the aftermath of his divorce and the death of his son, Frank Bascombe struggles to come to terms with failure and tries to find consolation in the arms of a new girlfriend. What he hoped would be an idyllic adventure turns into a succession of calamities.
The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 by Richard Ford (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta 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 ...Show more
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Perman ...Show more
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 tranquillit ...Show more