A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize author This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter, the story of suburbanite Frank...
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A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize author This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter, the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss. That novel, published in 1986, struck a chord with readers and reviewers alike, and Ford, a little-known writer who had for a time considered giving up the writing of fiction, was suddenly hailed in Newsweek as "one of the best writers of his generation." The Sportswriter, along with its 1995
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; The Marginal People in the Novels of Richard Ford; "On the Fine Edge of Disappearing": Desperation and Despair in A Piece of My Heart; "The Tissue of Everyone's Loneliness": Expectation, Reality, and Alienation in The Ultimate Good Luck; The Confessions of an Ex-Suicide: Relenting and Recovering in Richard Ford's The Sportswriter; The Sportswriter: Post-Faulkner, Post-Southern?; Men with Women: Gender Relations in Richard Ford's Rock Springs; Redeeming Loneliness in Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and Wildlife
Richard Ford's Postmodern Cowboys"Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be": Isolation and Alienation in the Frank Bascombe Novels; A Conversation with Richard Ford; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y;
