Book description
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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 in Maine try to recapture the ardour that
has disappeared, both gradually and suddenly, from their lives; on a
spring evening's drive, a young wife confesses to her husband the
affair she had with the host of the dinner party they're about to
join. <
'Scorching ... These stories are wry, stark, and
heartbreaking - and, with the quiet moral urgency at their core, make
up Ford's most stinging collection to date' Elle 'Elegant, pristine,
precise ... these stories are indisputable proof that Ford is a
contemporary master of the short story' Esquire 'Encompasses the
comedy and pathos and wit of our dislocated times and reminds us how
powerful short stories can be' Los Angeles Times '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
Francisco Chronicle
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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 in Maine try to recapture the ardour that
has disappeared, both gradually and suddenly, from their lives; on a
spring evening's drive, a young wife confesses to her husband the
affair she had with the host of the dinner party they're about to
join. <
