A Multitude of Sins (Signed First Edition)

FORD, Richard

ISBN 10: 1860468403 / ISBN 13: 9781860468407

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 286 pages. A collection of short stories from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Independence Day." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Ford on the title page to a longtime publisher representative.

Seller Inventory # 157910

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Multitude of Sins (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860468403
• ISBN 13: 9781860468407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Commitment. Marriage. Responsibility. Boredom. Detachment. In his new collection of stories Richard Ford gives more attention to the Seventh Commandment than is given in any book since Madame Bovary. Malcontents all across North America - whether in a Montreal hotel lobby or on the crowded hall of Grand Central station - seek meaning and permanence beyond the desire that entrapped them in the first place. Ford's philanderers are as diverse as his geographies. On the ski slopes of Michigan, a white-trash ex-husband assaults his rich in-law. Outside New Orleans, a teenager goes duck-hunting with the father that abandoned his family the year before to live with another man. In suburban Connecticut, a young wife glibly confesses to her husband her one-night stand with the host of the party they are about to attend. In a Phoenix conference centre, two estate agents initiate a tryst that ends in tragedy. Only a storyteller as agile as Richard Ford could tackle so many situations offered by a theme as old as Love itself.

About the Author

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories. His novel Independence day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, two weeks later, the PEN-Faulkner Award for Fiction as well, the first time the same book had won both prizes.