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The Children of Ashgarothby Richard FordISBN 0246130547 (0-246-13054-7)
Hardcover, Grafton
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The Essential Tales of Chekhovby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Richard Ford , Constance Black GarnettISBN 0060956569 (0-06-095656-9)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Tales of Chekhov'Book summary:Anton Chekhov is best known as a playwright, the author of such classics as Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and Three Sisters, but he was also an accomplished short-story writer. The Essential Tales of Chekhov does not pretend to be a comprehensive collection of all his fiction, but it does lay claim to be the best. Reading these stories, one immediately notices how modern they feel. As Richard Ford writes in his introduction, "His meticulous anatomies of complicated human impulse and response, his view of what's funny and poignant, his clear-eyed observance of life as lived--all somehow matches our experience." Chekhov is a master of the telling detail, the acute psychological insight. In "After the Theatre" he captures perfectly the morbid, romantic imagination of a 16-year-old girl: "To be unloved and unhappy--how interesting that was." In "An Anonymous Story" he quickly limns the sum of one of his characters in a single image: "He was a man with the manners of a lizard. He did not walk, but, as it were, crept along with tiny steps, squirming and sniggering, and when he laughed he showed his teeth." We will see much more of this character, but we've already learned everything essential about him.
No two Chekhov stories are alike, but they do share some common traits: though often somber, they are seldom despairing and even his most serious work is leavened by his trademark wit. Only 20 of the more than 220 tales that he wrote are included in this collection, but they provide an excellent introduction to those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading him. And for those who know and love Chekhov, The Essential Tales of Chekhov is a loving reminder of why. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Game Timeby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Richard Ford , Constance Black GarnettISBN 0151008248 (0-15-100824-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Game Time'Book summary:In Game Time, Roger Angells essays illuminate baseballs heart and history in careful prose that New Yorker readers have grown to anticipate each spring. The collection spans the forty-plus years of Angells baseball writing career and includes many of his favorite pieces as well as never-before-published material.
Rather than stringing the selections together chronologically, the book's editor, Steve Kettman, groups them by the three seasons of the gamespring, summer, fall. The structure works well to expose the breadth and depth of Angells writing across the years. As Richard Ford promises in the introduction, "It is by getting those. . . baseball essentials (strategies, nuances, protocols) down onto the page, and cementing the hard foundation without which sporstswriting cant earn your time away from the game itself, that Angell has made his bones."
The downside of this approach, however, is that some selections feel dated or misplaced for readers who did not live through the seasons in question. Many of the rookies scouted or players traded have long since faded into the obscurity. And for essays like "Distance," which profiles pitcher Bob Gibson, placement in "Summer" seems forced, the piece beginning as it does with recollection of Gibsons seventeen strikeout record set in the 1968 World Series.
But these are faults to be expected in a collection that represent the vastness of Angells contribution to baseball. In Angell, baseball is blessed to have found its perfect fan: literate, humble, and always eager for spring.--Patrick OKelley [via]
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Game Time: A Baseball Companionby Steve Kettmann, Richard FordISBN 0156013878 (0-15-601387-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Game Time: A Baseball Companion'Book summary:In Game Time, Roger Angells essays illuminate baseballs heart and history in careful prose that New Yorker readers have grown to anticipate each spring. The collection spans the forty-plus years of Angells baseball writing career and includes many of his favorite pieces as well as never-before-published material.
Rather than stringing the selections together chronologically, the book's editor, Steve Kettman, groups them by the three seasons of the gamespring, summer, fall. The structure works well to expose the breadth and depth of Angells writing across the years. As Richard Ford promises in the introduction, "It is by getting those. . . baseball essentials (strategies, nuances, protocols) down onto the page, and cementing the hard foundation without which sporstswriting cant earn your time away from the game itself, that Angell has made his bones."
The downside of this approach, however, is that some selections feel dated or misplaced for readers who did not live through the seasons in question. Many of the rookies scouted or players traded have long since faded into the obscurity. And for essays like "Distance," which profiles pitcher Bob Gibson, placement in "Summer" seems forced, the piece beginning as it does with recollection of Gibsons seventeen strikeout record set in the 1968 World Series.
But these are faults to be expected in a collection that represent the vastness of Angells contribution to baseball. In Angell, baseball is blessed to have found its perfect fan: literate, humble, and always eager for spring.--Patrick OKelley [via]
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Grantaby Richard Ford , Bill BufordISBN 0140140514 (0-14-014051-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta'Book summary:This anthology introduces the reader to three Americans behaving badly abroad in stories by Richard Ford, Paul Theroux and William T. Vollman. Also in this issue are pieces by Alan Lightman, Ken Light, Richard Rayner, Nadine Gordimer and others in South Africa. [via]
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Granta 15by Noam Chomsky, Richard Ford , Philip Norman, James Fenton, Frank SneppISBN 0140075828 (0-14-007582-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Granta 40by Richard Ford , Bill BufordISBN 0140140549 (0-14-014054-9)
Softcover, Granta Books
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The Granta Book of the American Short Storyby Richard FordISBN 0140142207 (0-14-014220-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Granta Book of the American Short Story'Book summary:This extraordinary anthology represents Ford's personal vision of the best works of short fiction published in the U.S. in his lifetime and features authors ranging from Paul Bowles, Flannery O'Connor, and James Baldwin to contemporary writers such as Amy Tan, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and David Leavitt. [via]
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Homemade Lightning: Creative Experiments in Electricityby Richard FordISBN 0071373233 (0-07-137323-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Independence Dayby Richard FordISBN 0316288381 (0-316-28838-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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Light Yearsby James Salter, Richard FordISBN 0141188634 (0-14-118863-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Light Years'Book summary:Negra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, tender and resonant, "Light Years" is an exquisite novel of lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness. [via]
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Local Government Lawby James Salter, Richard FordISBN 0314251316 (0-314-25131-6)
Hardcover, West Group
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Maine: The Seasonsby Terrell S. Lester, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford , Richard Russo, Elizabeth StroutISBN 0375411186 (0-375-41118-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Melvaig's Visionby Richard FordISBN 0246121041 (0-246-12104-1)
Hardcover, Granada Publishing, Limited
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Multitude of Sinsby Richard FordISBN 0099445182 (0-09-944518-2)
Softcover, Random House
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Multitude of Sins Headerby Richard FordISBN 0099444836 (0-09-944483-6)
Softcover, Random House
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A Piece of My Heartby Richard FordISBN 0006543081 (0-00-654308-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The Pushcart Prize, Xiiiby Richard FordISBN 0140116990 (0-14-011699-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Quest for the Faradawnby Richard FordISBN 0246117281 (0-246-11728-1)
Hardcover, Granada Publishing, Limited
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Rock Springsby Richard FordISBN 0002717077 (0-00-271707-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 000271745X (0-00-271745-X)
Hardcover, Harvill, HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
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Ultimate Good Luckby Richard FordISBN 0006544088 (0-00-654408-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Wildlifeby Richard FordISBN 0006544436 (0-00-654443-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Women with Men: Three Storiesby Richard FordISBN 0316287520 (0-316-28752-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women with Men: Three Stories'Book summary:In his second collection of short fiction, Richard Ford captures relationships at complex and essential moments of truth exploring the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and the need for reliance tempered by fearful vulnerability. The three stories take us from the plains of Montana, to the streets of Paris, to the suburbs of Chicago. [via]
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