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I wish to thank my friends Carl Navarre and Gary Taylor for their special generosities, which helped me write this book.

I wish to thank my friends Carl Navarre and Gary Taylor for their special generosities, which helped me write this book.

Richard Ford is more known for his Pulitzer-award winning Independence Day but this book, his fourth, Wildlife is his only book included in the 501 Must Read Books so I picked this up first. Good intro to his works. I will definitely pick up the others soon. Ford has been compared to William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Wildlife has the brevity and consciseness of Hemingway's works. This novel also reflects the ordinary American lives in the A very short novel yet a whooper.

Wildlife is a novel by American author Richard Ford, first published in 1990. The book is narrated by 16-year-old Joe Brinson, who watches as his parents' marriage dissolves in front of him as his mother begins an affair. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 2018 with Paul Dano, making his directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Zoe Kazan.

Richard Ford is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. It is the quickest read of them all. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction.

This is rather slight, but quite interesting and evocative. The longest and most important chapter in this slim volume depicts a sixteen year-old boy, his mother and her lover, all while the husband . .s away fighting a fire. I believe the author's own father died when the author was sixteen, so there may well be a correlation. At any rate, the story conveys a sense of loss and confusion quite well indeed

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Read Wildlife, by Richard Ford online on Bookmate – Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano Th. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate.

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life.

Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American. Chapter 1. In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.