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An Innocent Abroad : Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
$27.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has ...Show more
Be Mine by Richard Ford
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A masterful writer' RAYMOND CARVER 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, here, once more ...Show more
Between Them by Richard Ford
$17.00 AUD
Category: Biography
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveEdna Akin and Parker Ford married young. For fifteen years they ...Show more
Between Them - Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford
$19.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family loveRichard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he piec ...Show more
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work by Richard Ford (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This vital collection of stories about work will be a lasting chronicle of how Americans are employed, how they find work and leave it, refuse it or scorn it, how it defines, fascinates, frustrates and ennobles us. Richard Ford's anthology is not only compelling, but extremely timely. During this ha ...Show more
Canada by Richard Ford
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 l ...Show more
Dress Codes - How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Jewellery
A revelatory exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to ...Show more
Independence Day by Richard Ford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Bascombe Trilogy Ser.
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Independence Day by Richard Ford
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. "Independenc ...Show more
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Frank Bascombe Ser.
In his masterful trio of novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely-discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Now, in LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU, Bascombe returns. Sixty-seven years old, ensconced in a quiet ...Show more
Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the celebrated fictional landscape that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe In his trio of critically acclaimed, bestselling novels--The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/ Faulkner-winning Independence Day, an ...Show more
Piece Of My Heart by Richard Ford
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Mis ...Show more