Richard Ford

Nel profondo Sud degli Stati Uniti, tra i ruggenti anni Venti e gli anni desolati della Grande Depressione, una strana coppia percorre le strade assolate del Mississippi e dell'Arkansas su una Ford a due porte. Lui il rappresentante di una ditta di amido per il bucato. Lei sua moglie. Si sono conosciuti giovanissimi, …

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 …

It's hard to imagine a book illuminating the texture of everyday life more brilliantly, or capturing the truth of human emotions more honestly, than Ford does in his account of an alienated scribe in the New Jersey suburbs. Frank Bascombe, Ford's protagonist, clings to his almost villainous despair in a way that …