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  Independence Day

  by Richard Ford

  Real-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, but somehow nothing turns out the way he expects. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
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  The Lay of the Land

  by Richard Ford

  With The Sportswriter, in 1986, Richard Ford commenced a cycle of novels that ten years later—after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award—was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic <that> is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.” Now, a decade later, Frank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely... (more)
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  Wildlife (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Richard Ford

  Sparely narrated yet breathtakingly expansive in its vision, Richard Ford's latest novel is sent in the West he depicted so brilliantly in his short story collection, Rock Springs. "Ford brings the early Hemingway to mind. Not many writers can survive the comparison. Ford can. Wildlife has a look of permanence about it."--Newsweek.
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  Rock Springs (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Richard Ford

  In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace. "Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny; and just plain... (more)
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  Women With Men : 3 Stories

  by Richard Ford

  This is the story of a group of men and women. As they experience the consolations and complications of relationships with the opposite sex, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, and the fine distinction between pleasing another and pleasing oneself.
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  The Sportswriter (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Richard Ford

  To coordinate with the publication of its long-awaited sequel, Independence Day, Vintage is reissuing this novel. In the course of one Easter week, Frank Bascombe, a former novelist who now supports himself writing about men who live more successfully within themselves, walks the treacherous line between elation and searing regret. Profile in Vanity Fair.
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  A Piece of My Heart (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Richard Ford

  Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he's looking for--amid a conflagration of violence that's as shocking as it is inevitable. "This is one of those books... (more)
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  QUEST FOR THE FARADAWN.

  by Richard Ford

  Deep in the ancient forest that the creatures called the Wild Wood amid the scented bracken and towering beeches, there were whispers of a legend whose ending was lost in the mists of time. It told of a heroic journey and a saviour destined to possess the secret power of the Faradawn. And so it came to pass, in the time of man's great war, that a human child brought the legend to life. Sensing, without knowing... (more)
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  Melvaig's Vision

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  The Dragons of Lencia: Lone Wolf

  by Richard Ford

  Book 1 in the Lencian Trilogy The Kingdom of Lencia. For almost two-and-a-half millennia she has looked over the waters of the Tentarias towards the lands lost to her during the Darkdawn War. Now Telnac, King of Lencia, plans to launch a crusade against the Drakkarim of Nyras and restore his country to its former glory. Meanwhile, Warmarshal Ranghor of Darke, overlord of the Drakkarim nation, plans a conquest of... (more)
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  The Sportswriter

  by Richard Ford