Sorry for Your Trouble - Stories

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, 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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The god of small stories . A set of polished gems from a master craftsman . The prose is terse, the craftsmanship, as always, fine. The reader feels cradled in the capable hands of an expert Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ford, Ford Richard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781526620033
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-2003-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: 201 GRAND
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce