"Extraordinari" Robert Sladrigas, La VanguardiaFrank Bascombe. Cinquanta-cinc anys. Exnovel?lista i excronista esportiu. Professió actual: agent immobiliari. Dos matrimonis i un divorci. La novel?la arrenca a la tardor de l'any 2000, una setmana abans de la festivitat d'Accio de Gracies. En poc temps, en Frank ha hagut d'assimilar la separacio de la seva segona dona, que l'ha abandonat pel seu primer marit, a qui donava per mort, i s'ha hagut de sotmetre a un tractament de iode radioactiu per vencer un cancer de prostata. Ara es recupera i acaba d'entrar en una fase de pragmatisme optimista que ell anomena Periode Permanent. Mentre recorre l'estat de Nova Jersey, sol o acompanyat pel seu soci, en Bascombe observa el paisatge canviant de centres comercials i solars per construir, reflexiona sobre els costums i les excentricitats dels seus compatriotes i aplega forces per afrontar el dinar familiar imminent d'Accio de Gracies.
With "The Sportswriter," in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later--after "Independence Day"--won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, Frank Bascombe's story resumes, in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Thanksgiving looming before him with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A "New York Times" Best Book of the Year A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father - Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms " the Permanent Period" is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time.
Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford offers honest, moving, and compassionate portraits of modern existence in the stories "Communist," "Reunion," "Calling," "Occidentals," and "Rock Springs"; excerpts from The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and "Piece of My Heart"; and, for the first time in book form, the memoir "My Mother, in a Memory."
Del guanyador del Premi Pulitzer…una història per als amants de les novel·les sobre la vida americana en la línia de Franzen, Cheever o Philip Roth. Dell Parsons té quinze anys quan els seus par
La primera entrega de la tetralogia que ha consagrat Richard Ford com un dels retratistes més brillants de l'Amèrica contemporània.
A vegades, la fi d'un matrimoni és com un knockout: després de l
Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe.Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived seemingly but not utterly amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford and Bascombe.With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle the tumult of the world we live in.
Ce nest pas à 68 ans quon va changer Frank Bascombe. Toujours aussi impassible, il coule des jours paisibles dans une petite ville du New Jersey. Mais quand louragan Sandy dévaste la côte, il est
Un ejecutivo de la industria papelera viaja a París por motivos laborales y allí conoce a una mujer divorciada y con un hijo; atrapado entre la esposa que le espera en Chicago y su amante parisina, intenta ordenar su vida y evitar meterse en un callejón sin salida. Un muchacho de diecisiete años que vive con su padre en un pueblo de Montana recibe la visita de su tía, que lo va a llevar a Seattle para vivir con su madre; durante el viaje son testigos de un asesinato. Un profesor universitario al que acaban de traducir su primera novela al francés viaja a París con su amante, y allí intenta localizar a su traductora y evitar a unos insoportables amigos americanos que viven en la ciudad, mientras en la soledad de la habitación del hotel su antigua alumna y ahora amante, que ha sufrido un cáncer, piensa en suicidarse... Tres relatos largos, a caballo entre Estados Unidos y Europa, protagonizados por hombres que viajan, mantienen complicadas relaciones con el sexo opuesto y tratan de dar sentido a sus vidas. Este libro sobre la búsqueda del amor y las incertidumbres de la pasión es una nueva demostración del sólido talento narrativo de Richard Ford.
In the autumn of 1960, Joe Brinson and his parents move to the edge of the Rocky Mountains to cash in on the promise of the American frontier, to seize a future as broad as the sweep of the Montana prairies. But when Joe's father leaves home to fight the forest fires that have raged since the summer, and his mother meets an older man, Joe finds his life changing too suddenly, blazing into unrecognisable pieces like the forests surrounding them.
