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. Therefore,...
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. Therefore,...
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,...
Martin Austin ist vierundvierzig und Geschäftsmann aus Chicago. Während eines Parisaufenthalts verliebt er sich in Josephine Belliard, Mutter eines Sohnes, in Scheidung lebend - eine Frau »von eigenartiger Schönheit«. Austin...
Frank Bascombe, geschieden, zwei Kinder, hat seine unsichere Existenz als freier Schriftsteller gegen eine Festanstellung als Sportreporter eingetauscht. Alles in seinem Leben scheint unter Kontrolle: Vergangenheit, Zweifel, mögliche Irrtümer....