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The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 24 Octobre 2006
- 9780307267122
Featuring Frank Bascombe, this is the third novel following the bestselling "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day". Here, Frank, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. ...
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Montana, 1960. Dell Parsons a 15 ans lorsque ses parents braquent une banque. Le hold-up échoue, son père et sa mère sont arrêtés. Pour ne pas finir dans un orphelinat, il traverse la frontière et trouve refuge dans un village du Saskatchewan, au Canada. Au coeur d'une nature sauvage, dans une commu...
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. "One of the country's best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care." --San Fr...
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A Multitude of Sins
Richard Ford
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 18 Décembre 2007
- 9780307424464
One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illi...
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Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic a...
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The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago. The tragedies that stalk the characters are unfolded with an indelible wit and clarity. So merciless is Ford's lingering gaze upon human, mostly male, weakness, so understan...
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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 i...
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Une mine d'or surgie de nulle part, une prison au petit matin, un chalet isolé au milieu de la forêt, un train qui fonce dans la nuit, un vol d'oies blanches au-dessus d'un lac : telles sont les images qui hantent la mémoire du narrateur de ces nouvelles, denses et précises comme des haïkus et toute...
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Featuring Frank Bascombe, this is the third novel following the bestselling "The Sportswriter" and "Independence Day". Here, Frank, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. ...
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In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who su...
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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...
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The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits...
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This trilogy of brilliant novels - The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and ...
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The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 10 Novembre 2010
- 9780307763709
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a ca...
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The Ultimate Good Luck
Richard Ford
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 1 Septembre 2010
- 9780307763716
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who s...
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A Piece of My Heart
Richard Ford
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 16 Février 2011
- 9780307779298
Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in ...
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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 - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which lef...
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