Bøger af Richard Ford

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Fords parentsEdna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesmanwere rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived alone together on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944.For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents lives found their greatest satisfaction. Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapesour parents livesthe award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.

A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the celebrated fictional landscape that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank BascombeIn his trio of critically acclaimed, bestselling novels?The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/ Faulkner-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land?Richard Ford, in essence, illuminated the zeitgeist of an entire generation, through the divinings and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe, who is certainly one of the most indelible, provocative, and anticipated characters in modern American literature.Here, in Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, and again ensconced in the well-defended New Jersey suburb of Haddam, Bascombe has thrived?seemingly if not utterly?in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy's devastation. As in all of the Bascombe books, Ford's guiding spirit is the old comic's maxim that promises if nothing's funny, nothing's truly serious. The desolation of Sandy, which rendered houses, shorelines, and countless lives unmoored and flattened, could scarcely be more serious as the grist for fiction. Yet it is the perfect backdrop and touchstone for Ford?and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of American subjects: aging, race, loss, faith, marriage, redemption, the real-estate crash?the tumult of the world we live in.Through Bascombe?wry, profane, touching, wise, and often inappropriate?we engage in the aspirations and sorrows, longings, achievements, and failings of American life in the morning of the new century. With his trademark candor and brimming wit, Richard Ford brings Bascombe fully back, in all his imperfect glory, to say (often hilariously) what all of us are thinking but few will voice aloud.Whether you've been a Bascombe insider since The Sportswriter or are encountering Ford's unforgettable inventions newly here, Let Me Be Frank With You is a moving, wondrous, extremely funny odyssey, showcasing the maturity and brilliance of a great writer working at the top of his talents.

In his trio of critically acclaimed, bestselling novels, Richard Ford illuminated the zeitgeist of an entire generation through the divinings and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe?one of the most indelible and provocative characters in modern American literature. In Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight and living in a New Jersey suburb, Frank has thrived?seemingly if not utterly?in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy's devastation. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of American subjects: aging, race, loss, faith, marriage, redemption, the real-estate crash?the tumult of the world we live in. Let Me Be Frank With You is a moving, wondrous, extremely funny odyssey, showcasing the maturity and brilliance of a great writer working at the top of his talents.

How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents?Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman?were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived ?alone together,? traveling throughout the south. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944.For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents' lives found their greatest satisfaction.Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapes?our parents' lives?the award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.

The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boys family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace.A powerful and unforgettable tale of the violence lurking at the heart of the world, Richard Fords Canada will resonate long and loud for readers of stark and sweeping novels of American life, from the novels of Cheever and Carver to the works of Philip Roth, Charles Frazier, Richard Russo, and Jonathan Franzen.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Best Book of the YearA sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father -Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms "the Permanent Period" is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time.Also available in the Bascombe Trilogy: The Sportswriter, and Independence Day

The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America.Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an "Existence Period," selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception.

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.”

Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he's looking for--amid a conflagration of violence that's as shocking as it is inevitable."This is one of those books that hit you hard...a story filled with breathing characters and genius-crafted dialogue between moments of consummate description.... I can't be unbiased. I'm mad for this book."--Elizabeth Ashton, Houston Chronicle

»Ford ist Erzählweltmeister.«Elke HeidenreichFrank Bascombe, eloquenter Chronist amerikanischer Zustände. Inzwischen ist er achtundsechzig Jahre alt und pensioniert. Mit seiner zweiten Ehefrau Sally lebt er in New Jersey: wohlständige Beschaulichkeit nach einem wechselvollen und auch tragischen Leben (Tod des Sohnes, Scheidung, berufliche Veränderungen und Prostatakrebs). Als im Dezember 2012 Wirbelsturm Sandy über die Ostküste fegt, zwingt der Anruf eines Freundes Frank, sich vor Ort mit der Naturkatastrophe auseinanderzusetzen. Frank wird vor der Kulisse zerstörter Häuser und ruinierter Existenzen von den großen Themen des Lebens erfasst - eindringlich und faszinierend unaufgeregt.

In his trio of critically acclaimed, bestselling novels?The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land?Richard Ford illuminated the zeitgeist of an entire generation, through the divinings of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe.In Let Me Be Frank With You, Bascombe returns to narrate four deftly linked stories, having thrived?seemingly if not utterly?in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. As in all of the Bascombe books, Ford's guiding spirit is the old comic's maxim that promises if nothing's funny, nothing's truly serious; the desolation of Sandy could scarcely be more serious as the grist for fiction, yet it is the perfect backdrop. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of American subjects: aging, race, loss, faith, marriage, redemption?the tumult of the world we live in.With his trademark candor and brimming wit, Richard Ford brings Bascombe fully back, in all his imperfect glory, showcasing the maturity and brilliance of a great writer working at the top of his talents.

When fifteen-year-old Del Parsons' parents rob a North Dakota bank, his normal life is altered forever, and a threshold is crossed that can never be uncrossed. His parents' imprisonment threatens a turbulent and uncertain future for Del and his twin sister, Berner. Fierce with resentment, Berner flees their Montana home for California. But Del is not completely abandoned. A family friend spirits him across the Canadian border toward safety and a better life. There, afloat on the Saskatchewan prairie, Del finds only cold refuge from Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and alluring American fugitive with a dark and violent past.Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery, Del struggles to remake himself. But his search for grace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with the forces of darkness that shadow us all.A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic.

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Ni vidunderlige fortællinger fra Pulitzer-prisvinder Richard Ford. Gradvise Små Justeringer er en visionær samling af lysende historier om store øjeblikke i vores små liv, om at elske og om at miste - og om de mennesker, vi har med os, længe efter at de er væk.Gradvise Små Justeringer er rig på Fords følelsesmæssige klarhed og lyriske præcision og bekræfter, at han er mesteren af amerikansk samtidsfiktion.“Ford er guden af den korte fortælling ... hans historier et sæt fintslebne ædelsten fra en mesterlig kunstner” – Sunday Times

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candorIn 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 young mans Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrators sorrow after his fathers death. Driving Up follows an American womans late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life. The Run of Yourself, a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wifes death. And Nothing to Declare follows a man and a womans chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of whats left of love for them.Typically rich with Fords emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.

I bogen, Looking Writing Reading Looking, går 26 internationale forfattere i dialog med kunstværker fra Louisianas Samling. Forfatterne åbner vores øjne for værkerne med deres særlige, poetiske blik. Igennem en bred vifte af litterære genrer som digt, essay, erindringer og noter viser bogens bidrag, hvor forskelligt man kan opleve kunst. Forfatterne er her læsere af kunstværket – og herfra kan vi selv læse videre. I kunsten og i litteraturen. Bogens bidragsydere er Georgi Gospodinov, Colm Tóibín, Claudia Rankine, Richard Ford, Peter Laugesen, Chris Kraus, Sjón, Anne Carson, Roxane Gay, CAConrad, Mariana Enriquez, Hiromi Itō, Delphine de Vigan, Domenico Starnone, Yoko Tawada, Jacques Roubaud, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Eileen Myles, Tomas Espedal, Christian Kracht, Guadalupe Nettel, Anne Waldman, Matias Faldbakken, Chigozie Obioma, Péter Nádas og Tahar Ben Jelloun. I bogen omtales blandt andet værker af Francis Bacon, Asger Jorn, Henry Heerup, Alicja Kwade og mange andre.

Tredje bind i Bascombe-serienFrank Bascombe har lagt sin ungdom bag sig, men ikke nødvendigvis sine bedste år. Han er indtrådt i den Permanente Periode, og nu forsøger han at finde ud af, hvad det betyder. Han er stadig ejendomsmægler og arbejder ikke for meget, men han har fået kræft, og USA befinder sig i et politisk vadested.Stemmesedlerne bliver talt om i Florida, mens Frank må forholde sig til sin fremmedgjorte søn, sin datters livskrise, en kone, der er på vej til at forlade ham, og en ekskone, der måske kigger forbi til thanksgiving.Richard Ford er en af USA’s betydeligste forfattere, og hans romaner om Frank Bascombe er læst og elsket over hele verden. Han modtog Pulitzer-prisen for ‘Uafhængighedsdag’, og han har derudover modtaget en lang række priser, heriblandt PEN/Faulkner Award.Oversat af Arne Herløv Petersen

Med udgivelsen i smukke, tidssvarende paperbacks gøres bøgerne om Frank Bascombe, en af amerikansk litteraturs mest ikoniske skikkelser, igen tilgængelige for det danske publikum, samtidig med at Richard Ford gæster landet.‘Sportsjournalisten’ er en storslået roman, som sendte Ford op på den amerikanske forfatterstjernehimmel og gjorde Frank Bascombe til et talerør for flere generationer. Som sportsjournalist ernærer Frank sig ved at studere andre mennesker - mest mænd - som lever i deres egen verden. Den livsform ser Frank selv som et mål. Men i en alder af otteogtredive lider han af en uhelbredelig trang til at drømme, et uroligt hjerte og det nylige tab af sin karriere, sin søn og sit ægteskab. Denne påske, hvor Frank igen møder sin eks-kone ved deres søns grav, er Frank dog i særlig grad ved siden af sig selv.Første bind i Bascombe-serien

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