Richard Ford

Rock Springs is a highly regarded collection of short stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford, published in 1987 and largely dealing with dysfunctional mothers and fathers and their effects on young male narrators. As with his earlier novels A Piece of My Heart and The Ultimate Good Luck, Ford's stories …

The Lay of the Land is a 2006 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel is the third in what is now a four part series, preceded by the novels The Sportswriter and Independence Day; and followed by Let Me Be Frank With You, a collection of "long" stories. Each of these books follows a portion of the life of …

A definitive compilation of short fiction written during the second half of the twentieth century and beyond features more than forty stories, including works by T. C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie, John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Junot Diaz, John Updike, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, and other …