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In this book, the author revisits both her life and her writing, from youthful convictions and early missteps to the mature awareness that every artistic voice is always part of the political sphere. It is a meditation on what the novel can—and must—continue to...

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...

By chance a man and a woman who had a past together meet in a bar in New Orleans; a boy marked by the death of his father begins adult life; a fifty-year-old gay man waits in a hotel lobby for his elderly father;...

After years of emotional instability, Frank Bascombe finds himself growing older relatively happily. He continues to work as an estate agent in Sea-Clift, where he had gone to live with his second wife who unexpectedly left him. Soon after he discovers that he has...