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You are buying 3 SIGNED First Edition HARDCOVER Books with 23 SHORT STORIES
by World Famous Author Richard Ford, they are as follows:
A MULTITUDE OF SINS, 10 STORIES
Signed by Richard Ford on title page.
By RICHARD FORD
Publisher: Alfred Knopf Canada, Toronto , Ontario
2001 Stated First Edition, First Printing
This book is a black HARDCOVER in fine condition with 278 pages.
The dust jacket in fine condition.
Only a storyteller as agile as Richard Ford could produce stories so rich and diverse on a single grand theme -- love, intimacy and their dramatic failures. With felicity, humour, insight and painful candour, A Multitude of Sins exposes our failure to be sincere, empathetic, patient, honest, passionate -- ultimately, to be loving -- to those we desire or should merely care for. In this fine collection, human relations, indeed our entire sense of right and wrong, are put into vivid and unforgettable play.
CONTENTS
1. PRIVACY
2. QUALITY TIME
3. CALLING
4. REUNION
5. PUPPY
6. CRECHE
7. UNDER THE RADAR
8. DOMINION
9. CHARITY
10. ABYSS
WOMEN WITH MEN, 3 STORIES
Signed by Richard Ford on title page.
By RICHARD FORD
Publisher: Alfred Knopf Canada, Toronto , Ontario
1997 Stated First Canadian Edition, First Printing
This book is a Red HARDCOVER in near fine condition with 255 pages.
The dust jacket in fine condition.
CONTENTS
1. THE WOMANIZER
2. JEALOUS
3. OCCIDENTALS
ABOUT THIS BOOK = Richard Ford's Independence Day -- his sequel to The Sportswriter, and an international bestseller--is the only novel ever to have received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, two years later, he reaffirms his mastery of shorter fiction with his first collection since the widely acclaimed Rock Springs, published a decade ago. The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago, where Mr. Ford's various characters experience the consolations and complications that prevail in matters of passion, romance and love. A seventeen-year-old boy starting adulthood in the shadow of his parents' estrangement, a survivor of three marriages now struggling with cancer, an ostensibly devoted salesman in early middle age, an aspiring writer, a woman scandalously betrayed by her husband--they each of them contend with the vast distances that exist between those who are closest together. Whether alone, long married or newly met, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and a need for reliance that is tempered by fearful vulnerability. In three long stories, Richard Ford captures men and women at this complex and essential moment of truth--in the course of everyday life, or during a bleak Thanksgiving journey, seismic arguments, Christmas abroad, the sudden disappearance of a child, even a barroom shooting. And with peerless emotional nuance and authority he once again demonstrates, as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, "a talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer."
ROCK SPRINGS, 10 STORIES
Signed by Richard Ford on title page.
By RICHARD FORD
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
1987 Stated First Edition , First Printing
This book is a HARDCOVER in near fine condition with
235 pages. The price clipped dust jacket in fine condition.
CONTENTS
The ten stories of Rock Springs appear in this sequence:
"Rock Springs"
"Great Falls"
"Sweet Hearts"
"Children"
"Going to the Dogs"
"Empire"
"Winterkill"
"Optimists"
"Fireworks"
"Communist"
All ten of the stories were first published in magazines:
Esquire: “Rock Springs,” “Winterkill,” “Fireworks,” and “Sweethearts.”
Antaeus: “Communist.”
The New Yorker: “Optimists” and “Children.”
Granta: “Empire” and “Great Falls.”
TriQuarterly: “Going to the Dogs.”
REVIEWS = Rock Springs is the first collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987.
As with his earlier novels A Piece of My Heart (1976) and The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), the stories from Ford's debut collection are notable for both their lack of sentimentality and undercurrent of menace.[a] Raymond Carver selected Ford's short story "Communist" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1986.
In retrospect, Rock Springs has become known as one of Ford's “Montana books,” along with Wildlife (1990), and Canada (2012), since the setting for most of the stories occurs in that state.
Reception = Upon the publication of Rock Springs in 1987, reviews were enthusiastic and this collection was well received.
In September of that year, George Johnson in The New York Times wrote: ”the finest of them achieve luminous moments, moments with potential to change how the reader sees and thinks. The stories of Rock Springs are extremely concentrated, so a reader who pays attention not only wants to turn pages but to prolong them, experience the supple, ironic, expanding and contracting medium Mr. Ford compounds from everyday speech. What distinguishes his stories from those of many contemporaries who share conventions of style and subject matter is just this personal, vital, idiomatic presence that both mirrors and critiques our habits of language.”
A decade later, The Paris Review —profiling Ford for its iconic interview series— acknowledged that: “His single volume of stories has established him as a master of the genre.”
MORE ABOUT == Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.
His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank with You as well as the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.
Awards and honors
2019 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
2018 Siegfried Lenz Prize
2018 Park Kyong-ni Prize
2016 Princess of Asturias Award in Literature
2015 Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature part of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
2015 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) for Let Me Be Frank With You
2013 Prix Femina Étranger for Canada
2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Canada
2008 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
2005 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library
2001 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction
1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day
1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. for Independence Day
1995 Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement in that genre
1987 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction for The Sportswriter; again in 2007 for The Lay of the Land; and in 2013 for Canada
Bibliography = Novels
A Piece of My Heart (1976)
The Ultimate Good Luck (1981)
The Sportswriter (1986)
Wildlife (1990)
Independence Day (1995)
The Lay of the Land (2006)
Canada (2012)
Let Me Be Frank with You, (2014) — 4 novellas: I'm Here, Everything Could Be Worse, The New Normal and Deaths of Others
Be Mine (2023)
Story collections
Rock Springs (1987)
Women with Men: Three Stories (1997)
A Multitude of Sins (2002)
Vintage Ford (2004)
Let Me Be Frank With You (2014)
Sorry for Your Trouble (2020)
Screenplays == Bright Angel (1990)
Memoir = Between Them: Remembering My Parents (2017)
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