Women with Men- Three Stories

✍ Scribed by Ford, Richard

• Book ID: 107105798
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 231 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307498847

✦ Synopsis

Richard Ford's Independence Day --his sequel to The Sportswriter, and an international bestseller--is the only novel ever to have received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, with Women With Men , he reaffirms his mastery of shorter fiction with his first collection since the widely acclaimed Rock Springs , published a decade ago.

The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago, where Mr. Ford's various characters experience the consolations and complications that prevail in matters of passion, romance and love. A seventeen-year-old boy starting adulthood in the shadow of his parents' estrangement, a survivor of three marriages now struggling with cancer, an ostensibly devoted salesman in early middle age, an aspiring writer, a woman scandalously betrayed by her husband--they each of them contend with the vast distances that exist between...