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Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies.

Dramatický příběh amerického veterána vietnamské války je zasazen do mexického prostředí mezi překupníky drog. Harry Quinn, otrlý i otřesený vietnamskou válkou, nemůže najít své místo v životě a vyhledává přechodná zaměstnání, charakteristická nebezpečím a napětím. Tomuto stylu plně odpovídá i „práce“ – dostat z vězení bratra své milenky, který si odpykává trest za rozšiřování drog.

First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons' parents robbing a bank. They weren't reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell's sense of normal life forever. In the days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of the border.

A trilogy of brilliant novels-The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land-that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction.When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed-by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land."In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened streets like a sweet lotion balm from a careless, languorous god, and the world falls in tune with its own mysterious anthems. Shaded lawns lie still and damp in the early a.m." - Independence Day

Reputation is aconsequence of everything you say or do and no other tangible or intangibleasset is worth as much as your reputation or has such an impact on your career. This book gets to grips with how our reputation is formed in thereal world and what really makes the difference in winning a good reputationand in losing a good reputation.

Illus. in full color. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed "Toad on the Road, " Toad joyfully takes to the tracks with his freewheeling spirit, carefree humor, and new motto, "Give me a ticket to go anywhere! The farther the better, I don't care!"

A trilogy of brilliant novels— The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land —that charts the life and times of Frank Bascombe, one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed—by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune’s rise and his family’s fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition—all its pathos and beauty and strangeness—Ford transforms this ordinary man’s life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.

The story follows fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons, whose life is upended when his parents commit a bank robbery. After being smuggled into Canada by a family friend, he finds refuge with the mysterious Arthur Remlinger, whose charm conceals a darker side. As Dell grapples with the fallout from his parents' actions, he seeks to redefine his identity against the backdrop of the expansive prairie. His quest for understanding leads him toward a dangerous confrontation with Remlinger, highlighting themes of innocence lost and the search for redemption.

A new epic fantasy for fans of Joe Abercrombie and George R. R. Martin.

The third novel in Richard Ford's magnificent fantasy series has enough thrills, valour, guts and glory to satisfy any die-hard 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 dread warlord Amon Tugha and his blood-thirsty army now at the gates. A vicious, unrelenting four-day battle ensues, the most perilous yet. ...OR BOW TO THE ENEMY No side is immune from danger as all hell breaks loose, with the threat of coups and the unleashing of the deadliest and darkest magick. Loyalty, strength and cunning will be put to test in the quest for victory. What fate awaits the free states?

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. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.

Exploring the complex lives of his parents, Richard Ford delves into their individual histories and the dynamics of their relationship. Edna, a spirited Catholic-school girl with a troubled background, and Parker, a gentle traveling salesman, navigated their lives in rural Arkansas during the early 20th century. Married in 1928, they experienced a life of solitude together, traveling across the South before welcoming their only child in 1944. The narrative reveals how parental identities shape our understanding of their existence beyond our own.

Steelhaven book 2: Blood oaths are sworn and broken in a city facing total annihilation as Ford's epic fantasy series continues.

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. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace. "Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny; and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism."--Joyce Carol Oates

In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in the words of The Washington Post —with stories by Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and forty others demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. In the years since, Ford has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting new favorites. This new collection features more than forty stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new generation of writers—among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Díaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) were in the first volume. Once again, Ford’s introduction is an illuminating exposition of how a good story is written by a master of the craft.

Gathers stories by Paul Bowles, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stegner, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, John Updike, and Grace Paley

An extraordinary piece of writing ... The act of writing those loves, has been if anything, Ford suggests, less poignant for him than a source of immense exhilaration. His readers, those with parents, and those without them, will feel that too Observer

Richard Thompson Ford presents a history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day.

'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVER Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful lives -- sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent -- Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all; caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank in typical Bascombe fashion faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on display the prose, wit and intelligence that make him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world. 'One of the finest achievements of modern American fiction' The Independent

This is one of the most acclaimed novels of the last two decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 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 tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece.

En amour, il n'y a que les détails qui comptent : une gêne subite, une hésitation, un mensonge de trop, et c'en est fini de ce sentiment que l'on croyait indestructible, de ce désir que l'on pensait insatiable. Avec délicatesse, avec détermination, Richard Ford sonde les blessures superficielles de la vie amoureuse pour en déchiffrer le sens caché. Ce qu'il cherche ? La fêlure, l'accroc, le coup de canif. Ce qu'il découvre ? Des faiblesses, des renoncements, des lâchetés. Et parfois, derrière cette médiocrité, cette banalité, on voit surgir, en un éclair, ce qu'aurait pu être le destin de chacun, s'il avait su... Avec ces dix variations éblouissantes, Richard Ford explore en virtuose les fractures de l'intimité. Explore le malaise qui rend si difficile le fait d'être ensemble, avec des personnages qui s'interrogent sur leur responsabilité face à cette réalité cruelle.

In this anthology, 26 writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The contributors include Pat Conroy, Norman Mailor, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace.

"My name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter"--One of the most famous lines in American literature opens this classic, inimitable tour de force.

A new stunning epic fantasy for readers of Brandon Sanderson, Michael J. Sullivan and Brian Staveley.

A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. In his trio of world-acclaimed 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. Through Bascombe—protean, funny, profane, wise, often inappropriate—we’ve witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century. Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You, Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers.

'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'He writes about human beings and their disappointments with unfailing insight' Observer'Finely crafted' Mail on Sunday'American master' Daily TelegraphA woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle age, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge. Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in, the air thick with the scent of gin and popcorn and longing. A visionary collection of luminous landscapes, of great moments in small lives, of the people we carry with us long after they are gone, Sorry for Your Trouble takes disappointment, ageing, grief, love and marriage and silhouettes them against the heady backdrop of Irish America in the past and present. Earthily humane and profoundly wise, the collection reconfirms its author as the master of contemporary American fiction.

Two men, one in search of a woman, the other in search of his true self, meet in a bizarre household on an uncharted island hideaway in the Mississippi. Richard Ford's first novel is brutal, yet often moving and funny.

Focused on risk management fundamentals, this guide is designed to help aspiring Project Management Professionals (PMP) prepare effectively for their certification exam. It covers essential concepts, strategies, and practical applications of risk management in project environments. With comprehensive study materials, practice questions, and real-world examples, readers will gain the knowledge and confidence needed to navigate the complexities of project risks, ultimately paving their way to PMP success.

È il 1955; i Wheeler sono una coppia middle class dei sobborghi benestanti di New York, che coltiva il proprio anticonformismo con velleità ingenua, quasi ignara della sua stessa ipocrisia: la loro esistenza scorre fra il treno dei pendolari, le cenette alcoliche con i vicini, le recite della filodrammatica locale, ma Frank e April si sentono destinati a una vita creativa e di successo, possibilmente in Europa. Nella storia della giovane famiglia in apparenza felice la tensione è nascosta ma crescente, il lieto fine impossibile, e l'inevitabile esplosione arriva con una potenza da dramma shakespeariano.

Ein aufregendes, aufrichtiges Buch der Untreue Mit scharfer Beobachtungsgabe zeigt Richard Ford Momentaufnahmen von Affären verheirateter Männer und Frauen, die wenig heldenhaft sind, dafür aber umso menschlicher auf ihrer Suche nach dem Glück. Gefühle sind eben widersprüchlich. Anwälte, Polizisten, Immobilienmakler, sie alle scheitern grandios an ihren Versprechungen. Und eine Steuerberaterin geht sogar so weit, ihren Geliebten mit ihrem Ehemann zu konfrontieren, nur um eine Entscheidung über ihre Beziehung zu erzwingen. Was ihr Geliebter nicht weiß: Der Ehemann ist in Wahrheit ein Schauspieler.

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves.

Lawrence, genannt Larry, lebt mit seinem Vater in einem Farmhaus irgendwo in Montana. An einem nebelverhangenen Tag hält ein rosa Cadillac vor ihrer Tür: Doris, die Schwester von Larrys Mutter, holt ihren Neffen zu einer langen Reise ab, und zusammen fahren sie durch die verschneite Landschaft über die Rocky Mountains Richtung Seattle, wo Larrys Mutter wohnt. In der Eisenbahnerstadt Shelby geraten sie in einer Kneipe unvermittelt in eine Schießerei, bei der ein flüchtiger Bekannter von ihnen ums Leben kommt. Dieses absurde und zugleich tragische Ereignis kennzeichnet Larrys Welt, die geprägt ist vom Zerfall seiner Familie und dem willkürlichen Chaos, das andere in seinem Leben hinterlassen.

Der Frauenheld und Erzähler Martin Austin, ein Mann aus den Vororten Chicagos, Handlungsreisender und in seiner Freizeit Trainer eines Little-League-Baseballteams, ein ganz gewöhnlicher Amerikaner also, mit Ehefrau und Eigenheim, kinderlos, verliebt sich während einer Geschäftsreise in eine Pariserin „von eigenartiger Schönheit“. Mit ihr erhofft er sich eine romantische Affäre. Aber der sonst so selbstsichere, glatte Austin verliert sich bloß in einer blutleeren Romanze und schlittert - ohne es zu merken - auf direktem Weg in die Katastrophe. „Der Frauenheld“ ist eine brillant erzählte Novelle in der besten Tradition von Henry James: Ein Amerikaner in Paris, der nicht der Liebe, sondern einem krassen Fall von Selbsttäuschung erliegt.

Der 30-jährige Quinn war in Vietnam und hofft, dass ihm nach schrecklichen Erlebnissen endlich das große Glück begegnet. Aber wie findet man das Glück in Oaxaca, Mexiko, einer Stadt, in der man zu Boxkämpfen geht wie anderswo ins Kino und wo Soldaten, Dealer, also Verlierer, zu Hause sind?

Charley Matthews und die krebskranke Helen Carmichael reisen zu Weihnachten von Ohio nach Paris. Als Matthews Kontakt aufnimmt zu einer früheren Geliebten, verschlechtert sich Helens Zustand. Mit unerbittlicher Präzision beschreibt Richard Ford eine Reise, die in einer Katastrophe gipfelt.

Zehn Autorinnen und Autoren reflektieren über das Schreiben: ihre Bedingungen, den Einfluss von Geschlecht und Leistungsdruck. Im Austausch durch Essays erkunden sie, was auf dem Spiel steht, wenn man das Glück im Schreiben sucht.

De jonge Dell Parsons ontvlucht zijn huis in Montana nadat zijn ouders zijn opgepakt voor een bankoverval. Verward en verontrust belandt hij op de immense vlakten van Saskatchewan in Canada, een vluchtoord. Daar wordt hij opgevangen door een charismatische Amerikaanse man, Arthur Remlinger. Terwijl Dell met hem optrekt, ontdekt hij dat hij niet de enige is die een geheim leven leidt aan de andere kant van de grens. Ruig, poëtisch, bitterzoet en wervelend: Canada is een roman vol verrassende ontmoetingen, beklijvende personages en sterke verhalen. Hoe indrukwekkender de landschappen worden, hoe scherper de kern van het boek zich aftekent: hoe fragiel de mens wel niet is.