{"product_id":"perspectives-on-richard-ford-9781617038440","title":"Perspectives on Richard Ford","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when Richard Ford was considering giving up writing fiction, suddenly he was hailed in \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e as \"\"one of the best writers of his generation.\"\"Then Ford's \u003cem\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss, was published to great acclaim. Its sequel, \u003cem\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), was the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award. With three other novels, a well-received volume of short stories, and a trilogy of novellas to his credit, Ford was firmly established as a major literary figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nine essays in this volume demonstrate that Ford, like few other writers of his time, powerfully depicts what it feels like to live in the secular late-twentieth-century world, a dangerous and uncertain place where human relationships are impoverished and human existence is empty and alienated. \u003cem\u003ePerspectives on Richard Ford\u003c\/em\u003e, the first book-length examination of Richard Ford's fiction, is a reader's essential companion for studying the works of one of America's most outstanding contemporary writers.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359743574359,"sku":"9781617038440","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781617038440.jpg?v=1754125576","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-richard-ford-9781617038440","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}