A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
Commitment. Marriage. Responsibility. Boredom. Detachment. In his new collection of stories Richard Ford gives more attention to the Seventh Commandment than is given in any book since Madame Bovary. Malcontents all across North America - whether in a Montreal hotel lobby or on the crowded hall of Grand Central station - seek meaning and permanence beyond the desire that entrapped them in the first place. Ford's philanderers are as diverse as his geographies. On the ski slopes of Michigan, a white-trash ex-husband assaults his rich in-law. Outside New Orleans, a teenager goes duck-hunting with the father that abandoned his family the year before to live with another man. In suburban Connecticut, a young wife glibly confesses to her husband her one-night stand with the host of the party they are about to attend. In a Phoenix conference centre, two estate agents initiate a tryst that ends in tragedy. Only a storyteller as agile as Richard Ford could tackle so many situations offered by a theme as old as Love itself.
Ford's mature prose style, with its long, sinuous, lavishly articulate sentences, is now one of the glories of modern writing Jonathan Raban, Observer; Nobody now writing..looks more like an American classic Michael Gorra, New York Times
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories. His novel Independence day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, two weeks later, the PEN-Faulkner Award for Fiction as well, the first time the same book had won both prizes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860468407 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860468403 |
| Title | A Multitude of Sins |
| Author | Richard Ford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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