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Vintage Ford door Richard Ford
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Vintage Ford (editie 2004)

door Richard Ford

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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. "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 An accomplished practitioner of the short story and the "Babe Ruth of novelists," (Washington Post Book World) Richard Ford is the first writer to receive both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for a single book, his 1995 novel Independence Day. Vintage Ford includes an excerpt from that novel, along with the stories "Communist," and "Rock Springs" from his collection Rock Springs; "Reunion," and "Calling," from A Multitude of Sins, which won him the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award; "The Womanizer," from Women with Men. Also included, for the first time in book form, the memoir, "My Mother, in Memory."… (meer)
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Titel:Vintage Ford
Auteurs:Richard Ford
Info:Vintage (2004), Edition: 1st, Paperback, 208 pages
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Short stories: "Communist" ( )
  spritecat1948 | Aug 15, 2018 |
This is a hodge-podge collection of Richard Ford's writing, consisting of mostly short stories, from both early and later collections, a magazine article about his mother and an excerpt from his most famous novel, Independence Day. I'd never read anything by Ford, and this seemed a good way to see if I would like his writing.

The first few short stories, written early in his career, were very much in the Raymond Carver-Hemingway vein; manly men, or boys trying to become men, in difficult circumstances. They were well-written and the settings were vividly drawn. It's the later stuff that shines, though. The later stories holding more subtlety and depth than I had expected, with each character, even those given only a few sentences in passing, fully real and complex.

The best part of this collection was the article that Ford wrote about his mother. It's the story of an understated love between mother and son that was no less strong for the space it gave both of them to live their lives. Ford's language here is understated and perfect.

This was a good introduction to an author I should already have some familiarity with. I'm inclined to read his later stuff first, with Canada, Women with Men and Independence Day at the top of my list. ( )
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. "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 An accomplished practitioner of the short story and the "Babe Ruth of novelists," (Washington Post Book World) Richard Ford is the first writer to receive both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for a single book, his 1995 novel Independence Day. Vintage Ford includes an excerpt from that novel, along with the stories "Communist," and "Rock Springs" from his collection Rock Springs; "Reunion," and "Calling," from A Multitude of Sins, which won him the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award; "The Womanizer," from Women with Men. Also included, for the first time in book form, the memoir, "My Mother, in Memory."

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