Book description
20P>I> 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
understanding his eye for the unravelling threads of human love, that
this collection of novellas seems only to broaden the reputation and the
following of one of the outstanding writers of our time.<
The landscape of Women with Men<
'Superb ... Nobody now writing looks more like an
American classic' New York Times 'Not only superb, it brings Ford to
new territories ... Ford's is the voice of twentieth-century
America: funny, human, sad and real. And these stories represent the
best of that voice' Irish Times 'Here are three perfect
"long" stories, so sinuously entwined and so subtly
echoing one another that the whole towers like a great novel' Julie
Myerson, Mail on Sunday 'Freighted with inspired insight into the
lies men tell themselves. Ford justifies the praise he received for
Independence Day. There is no better observer of the modern male now
writing' Observer
20P>I> 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 understanding his eye for the unravelling threads
of human love, that this collection of novellas seems only to
broaden the reputation and the following of one of the outstanding
writers of our time.<
The landscape of Women with Men<
