Tapestry | Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Sweethearts
I was standing in the kitchen while Arlene was in the living room saying good-bye to her ex-husband, Bobby. I had already been out to the store for groceries and come back and made coffee, and was drinking it and staring out the window while the two of them said whatever they had to say. It was a quarter to six in the morning.
Pretty Boy
He was in the taxi with the French woman he'd met that afternoon. They were going up to the American Bar to watch the election returns.
The Art of Fiction #147: Richard Ford
When Richard Ford’s first novel, A Piece of My Heart, was published in 1976, he appeared to be a gifted novelist much indebted to William Faulkner. Since then his novels, including The Ultimate Good Luck and Wildlife, and his much acclaimed collection of short stories, Rock Springs, have proved him a much less predictable writer and one harder to categorize.
How Was It To Be Dead?
Short story about a real estate agent, Frank, whose wife, Sally, leaves him when her long-lost husband Wally turns up… Seven months ago, in April of this…
The Shore
Short story about Frank Bascombe, a real estate agent who is trying to sell a beach house to ex-marine and self-made man, Clare Suddruth…
A Father and a Bicycle
FAMILY HISTORY about the writer’s father, a travelling salesman... If a model father can rebuild the lawnmower, rig up a punching bag properly...
Puppy
This past spring someone left a puppy inside the back gate of our house, and then never came back to get it.
Calling
Short story about a duck-hunting trip the narrator, home for the holidays from military school, takes with his father, before Christmas 1961, in the New …
Issues
Short story about a domestic squabble in a car as a result of a love affair...
Reunion
Short story about a man’s brief love affair with a married woman, Beth Bolger, which travels through his head in memory as he sees her soon-to-be former
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