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A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A collection of ten stories about marriage and adultery, passion and infidelity, disappointment and revenge. Ford looks at commitment, boredom, responsibility and the cruel things people do to themselves and others through the need for and the fear of love.
A Piece of My Heart by Richard Ford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two men on very different searches converge in a desolate pocket of the American frontier. Robard Hughes has raced across the country in pursuit of a woman, and Sam Newel is hunting for the missing part of himself. On an uncharted island in the Mississippi, both these godless pilgrims find what they hav ...Show more
Be Mine by Richard Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A masterful writer' RAYMOND CARVER 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, here, once more ...Show more
Between Them by Richard Ford
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveEdna Akin and Parker Ford married young. For fifteen years they ...Show more
Between Them - Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford
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Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveRichard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he piec ...Show more
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work by Richard Ford (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This vital collection of stories about work will be a lasting chronicle of how Americans are employed, how they find work and leave it, refuse it or scorn it, how it defines, fascinates, frustrates and ennobles us. Richard Ford's anthology is not only compelling, but extremely timely. During this ha ...Show more
Canada by Richard Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal l ...Show more
Canada by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later. In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered man, an airman from Alabama wit ...Show more
Granta Book Of The American Short Story by Richard Ford
$27.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
An anthology of American short fiction published in the last 47 years, including works by: Lorrie Moore; Amy Tan; Joyce Carol Oates; Kurt Vonnegut; John Updike; Raymond Carver; and Harold Brodkey.
Independence Day by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But, over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. "Independenc ...Show more
Independence Day OP by Richard Ford
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Estate agent Frank Bascombe moves into his newly-married ex-wife's old home, and is looking forward to the upcoming Fourth-of-July weekend with his son. But somehow, nothing turns out the way he expects. This is the sequel to
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Frank Bascombe Ser.
In his masterful trio of novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely-discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Now, in LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU, Bascombe returns. Sixty-seven years old, ensconced in a quiet ...Show more