Ford, Richard
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Author Richard Ford illuminated the zeitgeist of an entire generation through the divinings and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe. Here, in Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, and again ensconced in the well defended New Jersey suburb of Haddam, Bascombe has thrived -- seemingly if not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Contents: Privacy -- Quality time -- Calling -- Reunion -- Puppy -- Crèche -- Under the radar -- Dominion -- Charity -- Abyss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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Summary: A sixteen-year-old boy faces adulthood in a small Montana town, observing love, marriage, adultery, the working life, and unemployment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1990
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Summary: In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Like most people Frank Bascombe of New Jersey, a divorced realtor, has plans for the Fourth of July weekend: find a new home for a client, see his semi-girlfriend and take his son to a sports hall of fame. Instead, one disappointment follows another, but he takes them in his stride--philosophically. By the author of The Sportswriter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996
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Summary: The pursuits of an ignorant Southerner and a law student, who meet en route to an Arkansas river island hideaway, begin to interweave, with explosive consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1985
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Summary: A new collection of stories about memory, love and loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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Summary: At the beginning of his career, a young man gives up his chance to become a successful novelist in order to work as a sportswriter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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Summary: Frank Bascombe is a sportswriter attempting to cope with his failed marriage and the death of his son. Unable to establish true connections with people, Bascombe drifts into and out of various relationships, but retains an introspective eye that allows him to transcend life's obstacles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: 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/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Ford, Richard
Summary: In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Contents: Rock Springs -- Great Falls -- Sweethearts -- Children -- Going to the dogs -- Empire -- Winterkill -- Optimists -- Fireworks -- Communist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1987
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Summary: After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012
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Summary: In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: "A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle age, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO 2020
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Summary: A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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Summary: "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: The stakes are higher than ever as super-villains more ambitious and depraved are introduced, and a realignment of alliances shakes up the fight for power in Gotham. Season three of Gotham peels back the curtain on the infamous criminal organization known as the Court of the Owls. With the Indian Hill escapees on the loose, Jim Gordon must take matters into his own hands as a bounty hunter in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOTSummary: Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fourth season of Star trek, the next generation. Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original, it follows the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard an all-new USS Enterprise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021