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A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
A collection of ten stories about marriage and adultery, passion and infidelity, disappointment and revenge. Ford looks at commitment, boredom, responsibility and the cruel things people do to themselves and others through the need for and the fear of love.
A Piece of My Heart by Richard Ford
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two men on very different searches converge in a desolate pocket of the American frontier. Robard Hughes has raced across the country in pursuit of a woman, and Sam Newel is hunting for the missing part of himself. On an uncharted island in the Mississippi, both these godless pilgrims find what they hav ...Show more
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
12.99 NZD
29.99 (56% off)
Category: Lonely Planet | 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
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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 - Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
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.)
28.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Herald of the Storm by Richard Ford
36.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy
Welcome to Steelhaven...Under the reign of King Cael the Uniter, this vast cityport on the southern coast has for years been a symbol of strength, maintaining an uneasy peace throughout the Free States. But now a long shadow hangs over the city, in the form of the dread Elharim warlord, Amon Tugha. When ...Show more
Herald of the Storm (Steelhaven: Book One) by Richard Ford
27.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy
Welcome to Steelhaven...Under the reign of King Cael the Uniter, this vast cityport on the southern coast has for years been a symbol of strength, maintaining an uneasy peace throughout the Free States. But now a long shadow hangs over the city, in the form of the dread Elharim warlord, Amon Tugha. When ...Show more
Independence Day by Richard Ford
28.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Independence Day OP by Richard Ford
26.99 NZD
29.95 (9% off)
Category: General Fiction
Estate agent Frank Bascombe moves into his newly-married ex-wife's old home, and is looking forward to the upcoming Fourth-of-July weekend with his son. But somehow, nothing turns out the way he expects. This is the sequel to