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...
"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,...
As Ford's women and men each experience the consolations and complications of relationships with the opposite sex, they must confront the difference between privacy and intimacy and the distinction between pleasing another and pleasing...
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. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and...
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...
Пригоршня прозы. Современный американский рассказ. Сборник. Пер. с англ./Сост. Д. Мэдден:. — М: Текст, 1998. — 335 с. ISBN 5-7516-0075-4 В сборник вошли...