| A Multitude of Sins Contributor(s): Ford, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 037572656X ISBN-13: 9780375726569 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures. With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they're about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid, unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date-confirming the judgment of the "New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001038402 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.2" W x 8.06" (0.49 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures. With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they're about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid, unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date-confirming the judgment of the New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic." |