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`Ford has wrought a pitch-perfect thing of wonder ... a brilliant
elegiac novel'
-- Newsday
`Masterly ... moving ... It is an original and admirable
achievement' -- Evening Standard
`One of the most remarkable and enjoyable American novels in
recent years' -- Time Out
`Richard Ford's sportswriter is a bird rare in life and nearly
extinct in fiction' -- Tobias Wolff
`Riveting reading ... a memorable book' -- Observer
About the Author:
elegiac novel'
-- Newsday
`Masterly ... moving ... It is an original and admirable
achievement' -- Evening Standard
`One of the most remarkable and enjoyable American novels in
recent years' -- Time Out
`Richard Ford's sportswriter is a bird rare in life and nearly
extinct in fiction' -- Tobias Wolff
`Riveting reading ... a memorable book' -- Observer
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, Wildlife, A Multitude of Sins and most recently The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 000271745X
- ISBN 13 9780002717458
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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