Ford, Richard

Commitment. Marriage. Responsibility. Boredom. Detachment. In his new collection of stories Richard Ford gives more attention to the Seventh Commandment than is given in any book since Madame Bovary. Malcontents...

'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American...

'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American...

'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American...

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...

Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short story writers, edits and introduces this volume.First published by Granta in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of...

In his trio of bestselling novels - The Sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - Richard Ford set out the zeitgeist of an...

Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first "Granta Book of the American Short Story", which Granta published in...

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...

'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'He writes about human beings and their disappointments with unfailing insight' Observer'Finely crafted' Mail...

'Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape, but he has done so with a wry wit and a fin de...

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...