Richard Ford (1) (1944–)
Autor(a) de Independence Day
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About the Author
He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the mostrar mais Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize. He made The New York Times Best Seller List for his title's Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his title, Let Me Be Frank With You. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Richard Ford
Davy Byrnes Stories: The Six Prize-winning Stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as Selected by Richard… (2009) — Selection — 6 cópias
Writer's Workshop in a Book 3 cópias
Great Falls {story} 2 cópias
Empire {story} 2 cópias
My Town: Writers on American Cities 2 cópias
Entre Eles Recordando os meus pais 1 exemplar(es)
Rock Springs {story} 1 exemplar(es)
A ÚLTIMA OPORTUNIDADE 1 exemplar(es)
Fireworks {story} 1 exemplar(es)
A Boy Who Played With Trains 1 exemplar(es)
Puppy {story} 1 exemplar(es)
Richard Ford Reads the Sportswriter (First Chapter)/Richard Ford Reads Rock Springs (Short Story) (1985) 1 exemplar(es)
Richard Ford Book Set: the Sportswriter/Independence Day 1 exemplar(es)
Accommodations 1 exemplar(es)
Optimists {story} 1 exemplar(es)
Winterkill {story} 1 exemplar(es)
Going to the Dogs {story} 1 exemplar(es)
Children {story} 1 exemplar(es)
Sweethearts {story} 1 exemplar(es)
Selected Shorts from Symphony Space: Short Stories Recorded Live at Symphony Space (1989) 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuinte — 505 cópias
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuinte — 345 cópias
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contribuinte — 134 cópias
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Contribuinte — 33 cópias
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1944-02-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Locais de residência
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
East Boothbay, Maine, USA
California, USA
New Jersey, USA (mostrar todas 11)
Michigan, USA
Mexico
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, USA
Vermont, USA - Educação
- Michigan State University
University of California, Irvine - Ocupação
- professor
novelist
short story writer - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1998)
University of Dublin - Premiações
- PEN/Malamud Award (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1989])
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2008) - Agente
- Amanda Urban (ICM)
Membros
Discussions
Richard Ford: American Author Challenge em 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Novembro 2015)
Resenhas
Listas
Five star books (2)
Favourite Books (1)
Indie Next Picks (1)
Page Turners (1)
Canada (1)
Unread books (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 59
- Also by
- 46
- Membros
- 16,188
- Popularidade
- #1,403
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 388
- ISBNs
- 660
- Idiomas
- 22
- Favorito
- 76
It is written in a similar style to the previous book, in that we have Frank ruminating on life in general and his in particular. I still struggle to like Frank and couldn't understand why he would choose Sports Halls of Fame to spend quality time with his son, when his son appears to have little or no sporting inclination. I, also, struggled to relate to the dialogue, it's verbosity. Do people or did people in the 1980's America talk like that. I struggled to follow these threads of conversation. I very much suspect, that the views expressed, provided a platfom for the author's own voice, but for me they bogged the story down.
As in the previous book, the pace does pick up eventually and keeps you reading and I suspect I will get around to the next in the seies...eventually. An interesting choice for the Pulitzer prize...… (mais)