Books by Richard Ford

Ten-year-old Juan and his goat, Pancha, set out across the mountains to invite the people of the next village to his town's festival, but along the way they are stopped by an evil hermit who likes goat stew, and Juan must find a solution with the help ofa magic amulet.Ten-year-old Juan and his goat, Pancha, cross the mountains to invite the next village to his town's festival, but along the way they meet an evil hermit who likes goat stew, and Juan must find a solution with the help of a magic amulet.

A collection of two hundred of the photographer's most significant author portraits includes those of such writers as John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, and Gloria Naylor.

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.

Richard Ford is the editor of the 1991 volume of this venerable series.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford pulls together the finest sports writing of the past year, featuring contributions by such celebrated writers as David Remnick and David Halberstam.

This two-volume collection reveals the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired Southern writers. "Complete Novels" gathers all of Welty's longer fiction, from "The Robber Bridegroom" (1942) to her Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Optimist's Daughter" (1972).

Short-story writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford selects and introduces an essential volume of Chekhov tales. Although most people know and define Chekhov by his plays, some believe his short stories surpass his plays in artistry. One thing is clear: Anton Chekhov is one of the greatest short story writers of all time. In "The Essential Tales of Chekhov," Richard Ford, a master short story writer in his own right, introduces and selects the definitive tales of Anton Chekhov. Ford includes the Chekhov masterpieces, such as "The Lady with the Dog," "The Kiss," and "The Darling" as well as a number of brilliant lesser-known stories. This collection is a must-have for Chekhov enthusiasts and those less familiar with his extraordinary short stories.

Considered the best sports photographer of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, Charles Hoff captured the boxer on film like no other. Interwoven with writings on boxing by James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, and others, The Fights is a meditation on the soul of the boxer, and on the body as an instrument of violence and an inspiration for art.

A collection of the author's favorite pieces on baseball includes several never-before-published stories by the New Yorker writer and author, profiles of great players, past and present, and other works from 1962 spring training to the 2002 World Series.

This is the second anthology edited for Granta by Richard Ford, 1996 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it brings together ten of the finest American examples of a new literary genre, the "long story," related to, but significantly different from, the novella. Ford's first anthology, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, was published to great acclaim in 1992, whereupon it became the most frequently cited and authoritative collection of short stories on both sides of the Atlantic, selling over 60,000 copies.

A collection of essays spanning more than five decades shares the experiences and impressions of childhood in the South's most storied state from a multi-faceted group of distinguished individuals, including Jimmy Buffett, Lorian Hemingway, B. B. King, Jerry Rice, Sela Ward, Jim Weatherly, and many others.

The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.

A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of Thanksgiving, as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore. Simultaneous.

A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of Thanksgiving, as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Evocative essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout complement 120 full-color photographs by an acclaimed landscape photographer in an intimate celebration of Maine through four seasons of the year.

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. And only a storyteller of Richard Ford’s remarkable agility, insight, and candor could envision with such felicity our most fallible human efforts to achieve what we consider most important with one another: to be faithful and sincere, empathetic and patient, to be honest and passionate and finally loving toward those we care for or merely, if desperately, desire.

As in all of Ford’s work, the settings are as distinct as the Connecticut countryside is from New Orleans, or a Michigan ski resort from Grand Central Station. Yet in each he is drawn to liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound . . . An exacting career woman celebrates Christmas with her adamantly post-nuclear family . . . A couple weekending in Maine try to
recapture the ardor that has disappeared, both gradually and suddenly, from their life together . . . A boy confronts his estranged father on a hunting trip and finds a disappointment that will change him forever . . . As they drive through a spring evening, a young wife confesses to her husband the affair she had with the host of the dinner party they’re about to join.

It is within such relations, these extraordinary stories suggest, that our entire sense of right and wrong is enacted, and the rigorous intensity Richard 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.”

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 notable authors.

Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Ford, the updated Granta anthology of short stories includes new work by young writers such as Nell Freudenberger and Adam Haslatt, as well as unexpected and refreshing selections from the works of literary giants such as Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Conner.

Fords 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 hes looking for--amid a conflagration of violence thats 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 cant be unbiased. I'm mad for this book."--Elizabeth Ashton, Houston Chronicle

Richard Ford served as editor for this edition of Ploughshares.

A retrospective collection of the photographs of William Albert Allard, author of The Vanishing Breed, encompasses 165 of the photographer's finest photographs, presented in chronological order, that capture the rich diversity of American people and landscapes. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Brought up by Brock the badger after being abandoned by his human parents, Nab undertakes the quest for the Faradawn, the three magical grains guarded by the Elflords of the Mountains, Forests, and Seas.

A collection of short stories set mostly in the American West, by the author of INDEPENDENCE DAY and THE SPORTSWRITER.

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring.

In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--New York Times Book Review

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“One of the country’s best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care.” —San Francisco Chronicle

An accomplished practitioner of the short story and the "Babe Ruth of novelists," (Washington Post Book World) Richard Ford is the first writer to receive both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for a single book, his 1995 novel Independence Day.

Vintage Ford includes an excerpt from that novel, along with the stories “Communist,” and “Rock Springs” from his collection Rock Springs; “Reunion,” and “Calling,” from A Multitude of Sins, which won him the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award; “The Womanizer,” from Women with Men.

Also included, for the first time in book form, the memoir, “My Mother, in Memory.”

Richard Fords Independence Day--his sequel to The Sportswriter, and an international bestseller--is the only novel ever to have received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, with Women With Men, he reaffirms his mastery of shorter fiction with his first collection since the widely acclaimed Rock Springs, published a decade ago.The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago, where Mr. Fords various characters experience the consolations and complications that prevail in matters of passion, romance and love. A seventeen-year-old boy starting adulthood in the shadow of his parents' estrangement, a survivor of three marriages now struggling with cancer, an ostensibly devoted salesman in early middle age, an aspiring writer, a woman scandalously betrayed by her husband--they each of them contend with the vast distances that exist between those who are closest together. Whether alone, long married or newly met, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and a need for reliance that is tempered by fearful vulnerability.In three long stories, Richard Ford captures men and women at this complex and essential moment of truth--in the course of everyday life, or during a bleak Thanksgiving journey, seismic arguments, Christmas abroad, the sudden disappearance of a child, even a barroom shooting. And with peerless emotional nuance and authority he once again demonstrates, as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, "a talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer."