Sorry for your trouble : stories / Richard Ford.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062969803
- ISBN: 9780062969804
- Physical Description: vii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : ECCO, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Nothing to declare -- Happy-- Displaced -- Crossing -- The run of yourself -- Jimmy Green, 1992 -- Leaving for Kenosha -- A free day -- Second language -- Acknowledgments. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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Subject: | Irish Americans > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. |
Genre: | Short stories. Fiction. Short stories. Novellas. |
Available copies
- 22 of 22 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village.
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- 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F For (Text) | 33180148081491 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
Sorry for Your Trouble : Stories
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Sorry for Your Trouble : Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator's sorrow after his father's death. "Driving Up" follows an American woman's late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life. "The Run of Yourself," a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife's death. And "Nothing to Declare" follows a man and a woman's chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what's left of love for them. Typically rich with Ford's emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.