New Releases by Richard Ford

Under nästan fyrtio år har Pulitzervinnaren Richard Ford genom sina romaner förmedlat en ambitiös och helt unik syn på det amerikanska livet. Nu kommer Bli min, den sista romanen om Frank Bascombe, en av de mest outplånliga karaktärerna i skönlitteraturens värld.I Bli min är den skarpsinniga, provocerande och ofta underbart roliga Frank Bascombe tillbaka, denna gång i livets skymning. En man som spelat många roller under sitt färgstarka liv - som sportjournalist, far, make, före detta make, vän, fastighetsmäklare - innehar nu den mest sorgsna rollen av alla: som vårdgivare till sin son Paul, som diagnostiserats med ALS. På en gemensam vinterodyssé till Mount Rushmore möter Frank, på typiskt Bascombesätt, den dödlighet som är så definitiv för var och en av oss, och konfronterar därigenom vad lycka kan bestå i trots allt.I denna minnesvärda roman visar Richard Ford upp den prosa, kvickhet och intelligens som gör honom till en av våra mest hyllade nu levande författare. Bli min är ett gripande kärleksbrev till vår förlorade värld.[Bokinfo].

Regresa un viejo conocido, con aires de despedida definitiva: Frank Bascombe protagoniza su quinto libro de la mano de Richard Ford. Conocimos a Frank Bascombe en el ya lejano 1986 con El periodista deportivo y sus andanzas nos han ido mostrando las transformaciones de Estados Unidos en las últimas décadas. Reaparece ahora con 74 años y arranca su relato con esta frase: «Últimamente, me ha dado por pensar en la felicidad más que antes.» A continuación, hace un repaso sucinto de su vida: perdió a un hijo, a sus padres y a algún otro ser querido; ha pasado por dos divorcios; ha sobrevivido a un cáncer; recibió un disparo en el pecho y ha superado huracanes y una depresión. Ahora, al final de su vida, se ve convertido en cuidador de su hijo Paul, que padece ELA y está recibiendo tratamiento en la Clínica Mayo de Rochester, Minnesota. Cuando le dan el alta, padre e hijo deciden emprender un viaje hasta el emblemático monte Rushmore, evocando otro que Frank hizo de niño, con sus progenitores. Norteamérica −con Trump en el horizonte− desfila por la ventanilla del coche y se suceden los encuentros con personajes variopintos, mientras padre e hijo aprenden a conocerse. Frank pasa revista a su vida llena de altibajos y cambios, y trata de encontrar en ella algo de sentido y esperanza, atisbos de felicidad. Richard Ford retorna −con toda probabilidad por última vez− a su personaje más emblemático para construir otra monumental «gran novela americana».

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful roles—sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent—Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on display the prose, wit and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.

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A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving Up” follows an American woman’s late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life. “The Run of Yourself,” a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife’s death. And “Nothing to Declare” follows a man and a woman’s chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what’s left of love for them. Typically rich with Ford’s emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.

This book stands out from the crowd in providing a fresh original perspective on the relatively underexplored area of a leader''s reputation. Reputation is a consequence of everything you say or do; no other tangible or intangible asset is worth as much as your reputation or has such a positive or detrimental impact on your career. Many studies reveal that we care more about what other people think about us than we do about what may have actually happened in reality, and yet there is so little written about the subject. This book gets to grips with how our reputation is formed in the real world and what really makes the difference in winning and losing a good reputation. The book uncovers the impact of the ''secret vocabulary'' used in organizations to shape reputations, and offers tips and advice about how to manage your reputation and how to develop a personal brand to shape your future career direction with integrity and authenticity. Dr Richard Ford is one of the UK''s leading leadership coaching and assessment psychologists who has helped hundreds of senior and potential leaders develop successful careers, and now Dr Ford shares 35 years of learning to help you achieve career success.

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En su trío de novelas aplaudidas por crítica y público –El periodista deportivo, la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y el PEN/Faulkner El Día de la Independencia y Acción de Gracias– Richard Ford iluminaba el Zeitgeist de toda una generación a través de las intuiciones y agudezas de su ahora célebre cronista literario, Frank Bascombe, que es, sin duda, uno de los más imborrables, provocativos y queridos personajes de la moderna literatura americana. En Francamente, Frank Ford regresa con cuatro historias narradas por el icónico Bascombe. Ahora tiene sesenta y ocho años y de nuevo está cómodamente instalado en la zona residencial de Haddam, Nueva Jersey. Bascombe ha salido airoso –en apariencia, aunque no del todo– de las secuelas de la devastación del huracán Sandy. Como en todos los libros protagonizados por él, el espíritu que guía a Ford es la vieja máxima cómica que promete que si las cosas no resultan graciosas, no son realmente serias. La desolación sembrada por el Sandy, que ha arrasado casas, zonas costeras e innumerables vidas, es probablemente el arranque más tremendo que se pueda imaginar para una narración. Y sin embargo se convierte en el perfecto telón de fondo y en la piedra de toque para Ford y Bascombe. Dotados de una precisa sensibilidad de comedia y de una inteligencia arrolladora, estos relatos abordan un completo catálogo de asuntos muy americanos: el envejecimiento, el racismo, la pérdida de la fe, el matrimonio, la redención y el desplome del mercado inmobiliario. A través de Bascombe –irónico, blasfemo, emotivo, sabio y a menudo políticamente incorrecto– nos sumergimos en las aspiraciones, pesares, anhelos, logros y fracasos de la vida americana en los albores del nuevo siglo. Richard Ford trae de vuelta a Frank Bascombe en toda su imperfecta gloria para decir (a menudo de un modo hilarante) lo que todos pensamos pero pocos se atreven a expresar en voz alta.

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman—were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944. For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents’ lives found their greatest satisfaction. Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapes—our parents’ lives—the award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.

El periodista deportivo es la novela que consagró internacionalmente a Richard Ford, de quien Raymond Carver escribió que era «el mejor escritor en activo en nuestro país» y el crítico francés Bernard Géniès afirmó, en una encuesta en Le Nouvel Observateur, que «se está convirtiendo tranquilamente en el mejor escritor norteamericano». Frank Bascombe tiene treinta y ocho años y un magnífico porvenir como escritor a sus espaldas. Hace tiempo disfrutó de un breve instante de gloria, tras la publicación de un libro de cuentos, pero luego abandonó la literatura, o fue abandonado por ella. Ahora escribe sobre deportes y entrevista a atletas, a quienes admira porque «no tienen tiempo para las dudas o la introspección».Y escribir sobre victorias y derrotas, sobre triunfadores del futuro o del ayer, le ha permitido aprender una escueta lección: «En la vida no hay temas trascendentales. Las cosas suceden y luego se acaban, y eso es todo.» Lección que podría aplicarse a su fugaz fama como escritor, a su breve matrimonio o a la corta vida de su hijo mayor, Ralph, que murió a los nueve años. ¿Cuál es el drama que ha provocado el fracaso de su matrimonio? ¿Por qué Bascombe ha renunciado a la literatura? ¿Qué le anima, sino una «moral de la apatía», un vivir la vida de instante en instante, un rehuir el suicidio por los caminos de la deseada analgésica banalidad? El periodista deportivo es un implacable testimonio de los desencantos inevitables, de la corrosión de las ambiciones, del aprendizaje de los placeres mínimos que permiten sobrevivir.

Poems Written by a Government Prisoner in Georgia, USA by Richard Ford [--------------------------------------------]

Frank Bascombe ist wieder da: Richard Ford schickt seinen mürrischen Melancholiker auf eine Odyssee verstörender Begegnungen. Familientragödien, bösartige Exfrauen, späte Beichten – nichts bleibt Bascombe erspart. Und nie war er aufrichtiger und hellsichtiger als hier. Es sind die Tage nach Hurrikan Sandy in den USA. Der Anruf eines Freundes zwingt Bascombe dazu, sich vor Ort mit der Katastrophe auseinanderzusetzen. Die Kulisse zerstörter Häuser wird zum Hintergrund, vor dem Ford mit der Stimme seines berühmtesten Helden über die Beschädigungen des Lebens räsoniert: über das Alter und Krankheiten, über Erlösung und letzte Dinge. Und wie nebenbei beschreibt er dabei abermals die Lage des Landes.

A quartet of masterful novellas that returns Richard Ford to the territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the life of Frank Bascombe, hero of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Independence Day. Richard Ford introduced the world to his protean literary everyman, Frank Bascombe, aspiring novelist turned sportswriter turned real estate agent, in his 1986 masterpiece The Sportswriter. A lapidary account of the textures, sorrows and pleasures of one man’s ordinary life, it laid the groundwork for the Pulitzer Prize–winning Independence Day, published in 1996, followed by the last novel in the Bascombe trilogy, The Lay of the Land, published in 2006. Over a period of twenty years, the Bascombe novels deepened a portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gave readers an indelible portrait of America. Now in Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns to the territory that established him as an Updike for the contemporary era, in a quartet of novella-length Bascombe stories, set in in the aftermath and amid the calamitous circumstances of Hurricane Sandy. Of revisiting Bascombe, Ford says, “What draws me to writing Frank Bascombe is what’s always drawn me: he’s funny (and it’s thrilling to write things that are funny), but also he offers me the chance to write into the breach between what Henry James calls ‘bliss and bale’; in my own way, to connect ‘the things that help and the things that hurt’ and to find some kind of reconciling vocabulary for both. I always think that, when I’m writing Frank Bascombe, I have the chance to write about the most important things I know, and that’s always been irresistible.” A moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, the four stories in Let Me Be Frank With You bear Bascombe’s unmistakable and now-famous imprint: a comic sensibility at odds with the minutiae of everyday human dismay and bewilderment; a plain-spoken acuity penetrating and expressing the shared wonder of modern existence; and a mordant relish and caution for all things American.

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Antihjälten Frank Bascombe är tillbaka, tjugofem år efter att vi först lärde känna honom i Richard Fords hyllade trilogi med romanerna Sportjournalisten, Självständighetsdagen och Som landet ligger. Richard Fords ikoniska huvudperson har beskrivits som sinnebilden av den typiske amerikanen, och som en samtida Vergilius har han guidat oss genom det moderna USA och visat oss att det finns mening överallt, även på de mest oväntade platserna. Det är en åldrad Frank Bascombe vi får möta i nya boken Kan jag vara Frank med dig? Han är nu sextiosju år gammal och är tillbaka i Haddam, New Jersey. I fyra berättelser skildrar Richard Ford med orkanen Sandy som fond hur livet kan te sig i ett samhälle som ödelagts av en katastrof.

Sportjournalisten är den första boken i Richard Fords hyllade Bascombe-trilogi som sedan följdes av Självständighetsdagen och Som landet ligger. Här får vi för första gången möta den amerikanske antihjälten Frank Bascombe. Han är en frånskild sportjournalist som bor i en av New Yorks trygga förorter, älskar sina barn och spenderar sina dagar med att studera människor. Men livet blev inte riktigt som han hade tänkt sig. Han lider av hjärtklappning och dagdrömmar, hans karriär går inte riktigt så bra som han skulle önska. Vi får följa Frank under en påskhelg med hans nya älskarinna då allting sakta drivs till sin spets och han tvingas rannsaka sitt liv på allvar. Sportjournalisten är en gripande, stark och skarpsynt roman om det moderna USA, ensamhetens konsekvenser och kärlekens villkor. En stor roman som många kommer att känna igen sig i.

First, I''ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parsons'' parents robbing a bank. They weren''t reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell''s sense of normal life forever. In the days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of the border.

Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an ''Existence Period'' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception.

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accident took his elder son. In the course of this Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic with spirits soaring. This is a magnificent novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers.

Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the Mississippi owned by an old man named Lamb. When these men converge on this strange land, each discovers the thing he''s looking for yet triggers a conflagration of inevitable violence in this tense and brutal yet moving tale.

The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago. The tragedies that stalk the characters are unfolded with an indelible wit and clarity. So merciless is Ford''s lingering gaze upon human, mostly male, weakness, so understanding his eye for the unravelling threads of human love, that this collection of novellas seems only to broaden the reputation and the following of one of the outstanding writers of our time.

Targeted at both travellers and ''readers at home'', Ford''s 1845 Spanish odyssey remains of interest to tourists and historians alike.

Only a storyteller as agile as Richard Ford could produce stories so rich and diverse on a single grand theme -- love, intimacy and their dramatic failures. With felicity, humour, insight and painful candour, A Multitude of Sins exposes our failure to be sincere, empathetic, patient, honest, passionate -- ultimately, to be loving -- to those we desire or should merely care for. In this fine collection, human relations, indeed our entire sense of right and wrong, are put into vivid and unforgettable play.

A novel of a fracturing family in 1960 Montana, “full of prose that makes the reader shiver,” by the New York Times-bestselling author of Rock Springs (Chicago Sun-Times). When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana. But the new start didn’t go quite as planned. Jerry Brinson is a golf pro to rich country club members, but then loses the job. In reaction, he joins a firefighting crew working in the mountains—as his wife becomes entangled in an affair with one of the businessmen from the club. Told from the point of view of Joe as a grown man looking back on those days in 1960, Wildlife is a “heartbreaking and compelling” novel about love, family, and the forces that test them to the breaking point by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Canada and The Sportswriter (Philadelphia Inquirer). The basis for a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Wildlife is “a wise, humane, and disarmingly simple novel of domestic distress” (Entertainment Weekly). “There is at the heart of this novel a deep nostalgia for that moment when a person recognizes a true perfection in the way things once were, before the onset of ruin and great change.”—The New York Times Book Review

A trilogy of brilliant novels—The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land—that charts the life and times of Frank Bascombe, one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed—by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune’s rise and his family’s fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition—all its pathos and beauty and strangeness—Ford transforms this ordinary man’s life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter brings back the unforgettable Frank Bascombe in this astonishing meditation on modern-day America. A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father—Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a post-nuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms “the Permanent Period” is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time. Also available in the Bascombe Trilogy: The Sportswriter and Independence Day

En El Día de la Independencia, Richard Ford recupera a Frank Bascombe, protagonista de El periodista deportivo. Es el verano de 1988, Frank sigue viviendo en Haddam, Nueva Jersey, pero ahora se dedica al negocio inmobiliario y, tras el divorcio, mantiene una relación sentimental con otra mujer, Sally. Mientras busca una casa para unos insoportables clientes, Frank aguarda ilusionado la llegada del fin de semana del 4 de julio, Día de la Independencia, que va a pasar en compañía de Paul, su conflictivo hijo adolescente. Ford retoma a su antihéroe y lo lanza a una nueva aventura cotidiana, en la que se entremezclan desolación, melancolía, humor y esperanza.