Richard Ford
1) Be mine
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"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....
2) Canada
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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,...
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people...
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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,...
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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 “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one...
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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.
7) Wildlife
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The story of Joe, a sixteen-year-old boy and his family who moved to Montana, in 1960. There their lives changed in ways they could not have anticipated.
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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.
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Frank Bascombe novels volume 1
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2010
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In this “powerful” blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life.
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people—men, mostly—who live entirely within themselves....
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people—men, mostly—who live entirely within themselves....
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In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard 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 and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, que despertó...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 "A Handbook for Travellers in Spain", que...
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Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff,Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar,White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthologyexploring resonant themes of employment, service, and daily obligations asunique windows into our culture, our society, and our very humanity. With ashare of proceeds going to assist the literacynonprofit 826Michigan, this unforgettable collection...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, que despertó...
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The Other Side of Suicide is a virtual reality journey with those left behind; "the Survivors". Those affected by suicide experience a tsunami of emotions; "Soul Trauma" of devastation, destruction, shock, horror and brokenness; lives forever altered and changed! Suicide knows no bounds. Every age, gender, race, creed, culture, and religion has been affected. Suicide, without regard for anyone, pulls people into a journey that none should have to...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, que despertó...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, que despertó...
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This book stands out from the crowd in providing a fresh original perspective on the relatively underexplored area of a leader's reputation. Reputation is a consequence of everything you say or do; no other tangible or intangible asset is worth as much as your reputation or has such a positive or detrimental impact on your career. Many studies reveal that we care more about what other people think about us than we do about what may have actually happened...
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En octubre de 1830, Richard Ford llegó a Sevilla con su familia y fijó su residencia allí durante más de tres años. En ese tiempo, recorrió gran parte del país a caballo o en diligencia, tomando nota de todo lo que veía y oía en una serie de cuadernos que llenó con descripciones de los monumentos y obras de arte que más le habían llamado la atención.
A partir de estas notas, publicó en 1845 A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, que despertó...
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En el otoño de 1830, el inglés Richard Ford llegó a España con su familia en busca de un clima más favorable para su mujer. Asentado en Sevilla, a partir de 1831 emprenderá una serie de viajes por todo el país, interesándose por sus costumbres, su cultura y paladeando la ruda gastronomía que imperaba en el siglo xix. Pocos viajeros extranjeros han descrito la realidad española con tanta precisión, agudeza y conocimiento. Sus libros Manual...