{"product_id":"perspectives-on-richard-ford-huey-guagliardo-9781617038440","title":"Perspectives on Richard Ford","description":"This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss. That novel, published in 1986, struck a chord with readers and reviewers alike, and Ford, a little-known writer who had for a time considered giving up the writing of fiction, was suddenly hailed in \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of the best writers of his generation.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e, along with its 1995 sequel \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/i\u003e, which became the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award, made Ford's Frank Bascombe as much a part of the American literary landscape as John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With three other novels, a well-received volume of short stories, and a trilogy of novellas to his credit, Ford is now firmly established as a major figure among writers of the post-World War II generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Richard Ford\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of essays to study the body of Ford's fiction. The nine essays demonstrate that Ford, like few other writers of his time, powerfully depicts what it feels like to live in the secular late-twentieth-century world, a dangerous and uncertain place where human relationships are impoverished and where human existence is often characterized by emptiness, solipsism, and, above all, by a sense of alienation. The contributors tend to view Ford's narratives of alienation in a broad cultural context. His works dramatize the breakdown of the institutions of marriage, family, and community. His protagonists often typify the rootlessness and the nameless longing pervasive in a highly mobile, present-oriented society in which individuals, having lost a sense of the past, relentlessly pursue their own elusive identities in the here and now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The collection, which concludes with a compelling conversation between Ford and the editor, will prove to be an essential companion to the work of one our most intriguing contemporary writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Huey Guagliardo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161703844X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617038440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Huey Guagliardo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125050405119,"sku":"9781617038440","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c09e7840-3f45-404c-9df0-3fa8670e23cd.jpg?v=1687440346","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perspectives-on-richard-ford-huey-guagliardo-9781617038440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}