Perspectives on Richard Ford by Huey Guagliardo (English) Paperback Book

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A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author

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At a time when Richard Ford was considering giving up writing fiction, suddenly he was hailed in Newsweek as ""one of the best writers of his generation.""Then Ford's The Sportswriter (1986), the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss, was published to great acclaim. Its sequel, Independence Day (1995), was the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. With three other novels, a well-received volume of short stories, and a trilogy of novellas to his credit, Ford was firmly established as a major literary figure.The nine essays in this volume demonstrate that Ford, like few other writers of his time, powerfully depicts what it feels like to live in the secular late-twentieth-century world, a dangerous and uncertain place where human relationships are impoverished and human existence is empty and alienated. Perspectives on Richard Ford, the first book-length examination of Richard Ford's fiction, is a reader's essential companion for studying the works of one of America's most outstanding contemporary writers.

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A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Author Biography

Huey Guagliardo is a professor of English at Louisiana State University at Eunice.

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This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter , the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss. That novel, published in 1986, struck a chord with readers and reviewers alike, and Ford, a little-known writer who had for a time considered giving up the writing of fiction, was suddenly hailed in Newsweek as ?one of the best writers of his generation.? The Sportswriter , along with its 1995 sequel Independence Day , which became the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, made Ford's Frank Bascombe as much a part of the American literary landscape as John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom. With three other novels, a well-received volume of short stories, and a trilogy of novellas to his credit, Ford is now firmly established as a major figure among writers of the post-World War II generation. Perspectives on Richard Ford is the first collection of essays to study the body of Ford's fiction. The nine essays demonstrate that Ford, like few other writers of his time, powerfully depicts what it feels like to live in the secular late-twentieth-century world, a dangerous and uncertain place where human relationships are impoverished and where human existence is often characterized by emptiness, solipsism, and, above all, by a sense of alienation. The contributors tend to view Ford's narratives of alienation in a broad cultural context. His works dramatize the breakdown of the institutions of marriage, family, and community. His protagonists often typify the rootlessness and the nameless longing pervasive in a highly mobile, present-oriented society in which individuals, having lost a sense of the past, relentlessly pursue their own elusive identities in the here and now. The collection, which concludes with a compelling conversation between Ford and the editor, will prove to be an essential companion to the work of one our most intriguing contemporary writers.

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A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Details ISBN161703844X Short Title PERSPECTIVES ON RICHARD FORD Publisher University Press of Mississippi Language English ISBN-10 161703844X ISBN-13 9781617038440 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.54 Pages 200 Imprint University Press of Mississippi Country of Publication United States Edited by Huey Guagliardo Illustrations black & white illustrations Author Huey Guagliardo Place of Publication Jackson AU Release Date 2000-05-01 NZ Release Date 2000-05-01 UK Release Date 2013-03-30 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-03-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2013-03-30 We've got this

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