Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback)

Richard Ford (author)

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Hardback 272 Pages / Published: 14/05/2020

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Filled with quiet beauty and hypnotic lucidity, Sorry for Your Trouble is a series of vignettes into extraordinary moments in ordinary lives. Featuring unforgettable characters of Irish America, Ford’s short stories marry tender melancholy with life-affirming humour, exploring both the fragility of life and tenacity of hope.

A woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by.

A divorced suburban dad helps his daughter pick out a card for her friend

who's moving away.

A group of friends in late middle age, all once promising, reunite for dinner when one of their number loses her husband, but the gathering splinters when bitter revelations about their shared past emerge.

Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in, the air thick with the scent of gin and popcorn and longing.

A visionary collection of luminous landscapes, of great moments in small lives, of the people we carry with us long after they are gone, Sorry for Your Trouble takes disappointment, ageing, grief, love and marriage and silhouettes them against the heady backdrop of Irish America in the past and present. Earthily humane and profoundly wise, the collection reconfirms its author as the master of contemporary American fiction.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526620026
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 540 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

'Late style, in Ford, is loose-limbed, allusive, jokey in a rueful way, and mutedly elegiac ... A marvellous writer.' - Guardian

'As you read Richard Ford, the harder you look, the sadder and funnier it gets.' - Observer

'Work of understated power, intelligence and not a little mischief, but one that leaves one wanting - craving - more.' - Independent

'The incomparable Mississippian Richard Ford is a great writer, no question about that. More importantly, he is a great American writer. Throughout his novels and short stories, as well as his astute critical reading of literature, he has fulfilled the main objective of art: the exploration of the self. He has also consistently chiselled away, ever closer to the heart of the United States ... He is a writer who has nailed exactly what it is to be alive - no mean feat - and to be alive in the US.' - Irish Times

'His journalistic eye for the revealing detail, his knack for tracing the connections between the public and the personal, his gift for capturing the precariousness of daily life.' - The Times