Richard Ford – författare

Under nästan fyrtio år har Pulitzervinnaren Richard Ford genom sina romaner förmedlat en ambitiös och helt unik syn på det amerikanska livet. Nu kommer Bli min, den sista romanen om Frank Bascombe, en av de mest outplånliga karaktärerna i skönlitteraturens värld.

I Bli min är den skarpsinniga, provocerande och ofta underbart roliga Frank Bascombe tillbaka, denna gång i livets skymning. En man som spelat många roller under sitt färgstarka liv – som sportjournalist, far, make, före detta make, vän, fastighetsmäklare – innehar nu den mest sorgsna rollen av alla: som vårdgivare till sin son Paul, som diagnostiserats med ALS. På en gemensam vinterodyssé till Mount Rushmore möter Frank, på typiskt Bascombesätt, den dödlighet som är så definitiv för var och en av oss, och konfronterar därigenom vad lycka kan bestå i trots allt.

I denna minnesvärda roman visar Richard Ford upp den prosa, kvickhet och intelligens som gör honom till en av våra mest hyllade nu levande författare. Bli min är ett gripande kärleksbrev till vår förlorade värld.

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful lives - sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent - Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all; caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank in typical Bascombe fashion faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days. In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on display the prose, wit and intelligence that make him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.

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 den osynliga gränsen passerats kan de omöjligen gå tillbaka till det liv som varit.Nu försvinner all trygghet för Dell och Berner. Deras vägar skiljs åt när föräldrarna hamnar i fängelse och de fortsätter sina liv med att på olika sätt försöka förstå och förlika sig med det som hände.Med en kristallklar och elegant prosa ger oss Richard Ford en berättelse om människans mörkaste, starkaste och mest gåtfulla drivkrafter.

Under nästan fyrtio år har Pulitzervinnaren Richard Ford genom sina romaner förmedlat en ambitiös och helt unik syn på det amerikanska livet. Nu kommer Bli min, den sista romanen om Frank Bascombe, en av de mest outplånliga karaktärerna i skönlitteraturens värld.

I Bli min är den skarpsinniga, provocerande och ofta underbart roliga Frank Bascombe tillbaka, denna gång i livets skymning. En man som spelat många roller under sitt färgstarka liv – som sportjournalist, far, make, före detta make, vän, fastighetsmäklare – innehar nu den mest sorgsna rollen av alla: som vårdgivare till sin son Paul, som diagnostiserats med ALS. På en gemensam vinterodyssé till Mount Rushmore möter Frank, på typiskt Bascombesätt, den dödlighet som är så definitiv för var och en av oss, och konfronterar därigenom vad lycka kan bestå i trots allt.

I denna minnesvärda roman visar Richard Ford upp den prosa, kvickhet och intelligens som gör honom till en av våra mest hyllade nu levande författare. Bli min är ett gripande kärleksbrev till vår förlorade värld.

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 master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage boy’s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace.

A powerful and unforgettable tale of the violence lurking at the heart of the world, Richard Ford’s Canada will resonate long and loud for readers of stark and sweeping novels of American life, from the novels of Cheever and Carver to the works of Philip Roth, Charles Frazier, Richard Russo, and Jonathan Franzen.

""First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.”

So beginsCanada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel.

This is the story of Dell Parsons, whose parents rob a bank and fracture his life into a before and an after, crossing the threshold that cannot be uncrossed. After his parents’ arrest and imprisonment, Del and Berner, his twin sister, face a blank future of foster care and social services visits. Berner, willful and burning with anger, runs away – orphaning Del completely.

In the midst of his abandonment, a family friend intervenes, spiriting Del across the Montana/Saskatchewan border. There, in a dilapidated town floating in the sea of the Canadian prairie, he’s taken in by Arthur Remlinger – an enigmatic, charismatic man whose own past exists on the other side of a similarly uncrossable border.

Undone by the calamity of his parents’ robbery, Del struggles under the vastness of the prairie sky and the stark, unforgiving landscape to realign his sense of self and his perception of the parents he thought he knew, even as he moves on an inexorable collision course with the slow-simmering violence trembling just beneath Arthur Remlinger’s cool reserve.

A resonant and luminous masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision, CANADA is an elemental novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost, and of the mysterious and powerful bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose but rich with emotional clarity, lyrical precision, and an acute sense of the grandeur of living, it is a masterpiece from one of the greatest American writers alive.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.

In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Through Bascombe—protean, funny, profane, wise, often inappropriate—we’ve witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century.

Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You, Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers.

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love

How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman—were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944.

For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents’ lives found their greatest satisfaction.

Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapes—our parents’ lives—the award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candorIn Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.

“Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death.  “Driving Up” follows an American woman’s late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life.  “The Run of Yourself,” a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife’s death.  And “Nothing to Declare” follows a man and a woman’s chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what’s left of love for them.

Typically rich with Ford’s emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.