Richard Ford - Böcker

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 skönlit...

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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 skönlit...

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'The best novel out of America in many years, a funny, achingly sad account of a father's disastrous outing with his son and much else besides ? Simply, a masterpiece' JOHN BANVILLE, GUARDIAN A FRANK BASCOMBE NOVEL It is the Fourth of July weekend...

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The magnificent novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers My name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter. It is Easter weekend and we are introduced for the first time to Frank Bascombe. On the surface Frank's life ...

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Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many a...

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'Marvellously subtle, moving and funny' JOHN BANVILE, OBSERVER 'Wonderfully written in every breath of every sentence' HERMIONE LEE, GUARDIAN 'Wistful, bittersweet - and often very funny' DAILY TELEGRAPH A FRANK BASCOMBE NOVEL It is approaching Th...

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Då jag fann honom låg han och sov bakom ligusterbuskarna i bortre hörnet. Han hade jobbat och krafsat och rivit i den bruna jorden och grävt sig en grop så djup att halva hans lilla kropp låg utom synhåll under marknivån. Han hade också brutit av ...

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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 skönlit...

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'Ford's Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. A fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion' INDEPENDENT In the run up to Christmas, we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a ma...

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Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspe...

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There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically...

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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...

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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 ...

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What will you learn from this book? If you're a software developer looking for a quick on-ramp to software architecture, this handy guide is a great place to start. From the authors of Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Head First Software Arc...

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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...

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The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American ma...

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Great Falls, Montana, våren 1960. När de 15-åriga tvillingarna Dell och Berners föräldrar rånar en bank slås barnens liv i spillror. Steg för steg följer vi föräldrarnas ödesmättade väg mot det ögonblick då det inte längre finns någon återvändo. D...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 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 love Ric...

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In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and furthermore get ...

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The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-ol...

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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 ...

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Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff,Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar,White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthologyexploring resonant themes of employm...

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A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkne...

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