Du är Ensamma Vargen, den sista Kai-krigaren. En resa till det fjärran Vassagonien kan göra slut på det krigshot som vilar över Sommerlund, men ditt hopp krossas brutalt när du anländer till Barrakesh, en stad där faror och ond bråd död väntar. Du j…
Richard Ford tar oss med till amerikanska Montana och de kanadensiska prärietrakterna kring Saskatchewan. Året är 1960 och valkampanjen mellan presidentkandidaterna Nixon och Kennedy pågår för fullt. Ett flertal händelser leder fram till att makarna…
Great Falls, Montana, våren 1960. När de 15-åriga tvillingarna Dell och Berners föräldrar rånar en bank slås barnens liv i spillror. Steg för steg följer vi föräldrarnas ödesmättade väg mot det ögonblick då det inte längre finns någon återvändo. Då…
Sportjournalisten är den första boken i Richard Fords hyllade Bascombe-trilogi som sedan följdes av Självständighetsdagen och Som landet ligger. Här får vi för första gången möta den amerikanske antihjälten Frank Bascombe. Han är en frånskild sportj…
Den andra boken i Richards Fords Bascombe-trilogi vann Pulitzerpriset 1996. Här fördjupas porträttet av en av de mest oförglömliga karaktärerna inom amerikansk skönlitteratur. Frank Bascombe befinner sig i en existentiell kris och har börjat arbeta…
Antihjälten Frank Bascombe är tillbaka, tjugofem år efter att vi först lärde känna honom i Richard Fords hyllade trilogi med romanerna Sportjournalisten, Självständighetsdagen och Som landet ligger. Richard Fords ikoniska huvudperson har beskrivits…
From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard…
In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. A refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter, a…
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later."So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and…
The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American mast…
A trilogy of brilliant novels-The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land-that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction.When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguar…
Provide expert care for cats and dogs! Kirk and Bistner's Handbook of Veterinary Procedures and Emergency Treatment, 9th Edition covers not only the management of emergency conditions, but also strategies for dealing with hundreds of routine diagnos…
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding o…
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning med…
A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend who's moving away. A group of friends in late middle ag…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United St…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Theref…
To boast of Spain's strength, said the Duke of Wellington, is the national weakness. Every infinitesimal particle which constitutes nosotros, or ourselves, as Spaniards term themselves, will talk of his country as if the armies were still led to vic…
The idea of universal rights-rights shared by all citizens, regardless of nationality, creed, wealth, or geography-has a powerful grip on the way many people feel about justice and global politics. No one should be subjected to torture or disappeara…
Hot Springs i Arkansas, 1927. Syttenåringen Edna Atkin forelsker seg i den seks år eldre Parker Ford. De gifter seg og bygger et liv på landeveien, der Parker forsørger dem begge som omreisende selger. Etter seksten år på reisefot ser de seg nødt ti…
The acclaimed author of The Race Card and legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford offers an expert analysis of human rights struggles across the globe, uncovering the complex realities of observing "universal" principles in specific cultures. As he enga…
Novellene handler om kjærlighet, forpliktelser, ekteskap, ansvar, kjedsomhet og frigjøring. De utforsker det sammensatte forholdet mellom mann og kvinne - par som forsøker å holde på kjærligheten, to og to som inngår hemmelige og forbudte allianser,…
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 H…
Uafhængighedsdag - tildelt USAs største litterære pris: Pulitzerprisen for året 1996 - er ikke bare en stor amerikansk roman. Det er beretningen om Frank Bascombe, den forhenværende sportsjournatlist, som benytter fridagene omkring den amerikanske I…
Med sin romantrilogi, Sportsjournalisten, Uafhængighedsdag og Som landet ligger undersøgte Richard Ford en hel generations zeitgeist - fortalt gennem en bestemt fortæller, medvidende og deltager: Frank Bascombe, en af de mest ufor…
Boka er en uavhengig oppfølger av Sportsjournalisten. Leseren møter igjen Frank Bascombe som er eiendomsmegler, førti og skilt. Tilsynelatende lever Frank et sorgløst og greit liv. Dagene går, og det meste er normalt. Forfatteren skildrer dette dagl…
An indispensable guide to the special challenges faced by parents of learning-disabled children as they enter adulthood, by the author of Laughing Allegra, a leading activist and parent of an adult child with LD.In 2003 Anne Ford (great-granddaughte…
