Richard Ford Independence Day

Ford, Richard: Women with Men: Three Stories, New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 1997 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0679454691
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255 pp.; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Trade Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "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.' / Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944, and grew up there and in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University and received an M.F.A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the 1994 Rea Award, which is given annually to a writer who has made a contribution to the short story as an art form. Independence Day was the first book to receive both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Ford lives in New Orleans with his wife, Kristina." - Publisher. First Trade Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Collectible; First Trade Edition

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Ford, Richard: Independence Day, New York Vintage Books; Vintage Contemporaries 1996 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9780679735182
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451 pp.; 21 cm. AS NEW. "Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend: a search for a house for deeply hapless clients relocating to Vermont; a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend; then up to Connecticut to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son and visit as many sports halls of fame as they can fit into two days. Frank's Independence Day, however, turns out not as he'd planned, and this decent, appealingly bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge. Independence Day captures the mystery of life - in all its conflicted glory - with grand humour, intense compassion and transfixing power. / The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction." - Publisher. 27th printing Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 27th printing

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FORD, RICHARD. Independence Day. Vintage, May 7, 1996. ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0-679-73518-6
A visionary account of American life--and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade--Independence Day reveals a man and our country with unflinching comedy and the specter of hope and eve n permanence, all of which Richard Ford evokes with keen intelligence, perf ect emotional pitch, and a voice invested with absolute authority..

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Richard Ford: Independence Day, Vintage Books New York 1996 ISBN: 0679735186

Very Good No Jacket Trade Paperback 1st. edition thus, 7th printing. illustrated wraps, clean. bottom corner slightly bumped. no crease to spine, ffep and text clean . 451 pages. winner of the pulitzer prize. nice copy.

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