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Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Frank Bascombe Ser.
In his masterful trio of novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely-discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Now, in LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU, Bascombe returns. Sixty-seven years old, ensconced in a quiet ...Show more
Lord of Ashes (Steelhaven #3) by Richard Ford
37.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Steelhaven Ser.
The third novel in Richard Ford's magificent fantasy series has enough thrills, valour, guts and glory to satisy any die-fard fan of David Gemmell and Joe Abercrombie. FIGHT TO THE DEATH...The queen of Steelhaven has grown in strength. Taking up her dead father's sword, she must defend the city from the ...Show more
Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 M ...Show more
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stories in this celebrated collection are about ordinary women, men and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, they confront their fates with hard-won optimism, humour and flashes of insight.
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
28.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. A refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter, an unhappy girlfriend and a stolen Mercedes; a boy watch ...Show more
Shattered Crown (Steelhaven: Book Two) by Richard Ford
27.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Steelhaven
Heroes must rise ...The King is dead. His daughter, untested and alone, now wears the Steel Crown. And a vast horde is steadily carving a bloody road south, hell-bent on razing Steelhaven to the ground ...or the city will fall Before the city faces the terror that approaches, it must crush the danger al ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Sportswriter by Richard Ford
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the aftermath of his divorce and the death of his son, Frank Bascombe struggles to come to terms with failure and tries to find consolation in the arms of a new girlfriend. What he hoped would be an idyllic adventure turns into a succession of calamities.
The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 by Richard Ford (ed)
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century. In the fourteen years ...Show more
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Perman ...Show more
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillit ...Show more