A Piece Of My Heart

Richard Ford

ISBN 10: 0060113626 / ISBN 13: 9780060113629

Published by Harper & Row, 1976

About this Item

Advance reading copy. SIGNED, without inscription, by Richard Ford on the title page. Review material and early book synopsis are laid in. The volume is edge worn and has a vertical crease extending about half way up the rear cover. Very good. Seller Inventory # 12062004

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Piece Of My Heart

Publisher: Harper & Row

Publication Date: 1976

Binding: softcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

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 have been searching for in an explosion of shocking violence. The novel that launched the career of one of America's literary masters, A Piece of My Heart is a tour-de-force that does justice to Ford's diverse literary gifts: his unerring eye for detail, his pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, and his sharp understanding of human nature.

Review:

'Superb. Brutally real and at the same time haunting - one of those rare surprises that come along every few years’ -- Jim Harrison

'This is quality writing in the highest American tradition of Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck’ -- Peter Tinniswood, The Times