Richard Ford






Richard Ford

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born
February 16, 1944

gender
male

place of birth
Jackson, Mississippi, The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction

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avg rating: 3.76 | 5,597 ratings | 729 reviews | 78 distinct works | 23 fans
The Sportswriter The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.66 — 1,311 ratings — published 1986
15 editions
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Independence Day Independence Day
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.83 — 1,203 ratings — published 1995
22 editions
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The Lay of the Land The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.75 — 606 ratings — published 2006
13 editions
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Rock Springs Rock Springs
by Richard Ford
avg rating 4.10 — 407 ratings — published 1987
11 editions
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A Multitude of Sins A Multitude of Sins
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.56 — 225 ratings — published 2001
11 editions
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Women With Men: 3 Stories Women With Men: 3 Stories
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.45 — 223 ratings — published 1997
15 editions
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Wildlife Wildlife
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.56 — 149 ratings — published 1990
13 editions
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The New Granta Book of the Ame... The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.92 — 77 ratings — published 2007
2 editions
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A Piece of My Heart A Piece of My Heart
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.52 — 83 ratings — published 1976
8 editions
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The Ultimate Good Luck The Ultimate Good Luck
by Richard Ford
avg rating 3.31 — 70 ratings — published 1981
8 editions
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"What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups."
Richard Ford (The Sportswriter)
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"A sad fact, of course, about adult life is that you see the very things you'll never adapt to coming toward you on the horizon. You see them as the problems they are, you worry like hell about them, you make provisions, take precautions, fashion adjustments; you tell yourself you'll have to change your way of doing things. Only you don't. You can't. Somehow it's already too late. And maybe it's even worse than that: maybe the thing you see coming from far away is not the real thing, the thing that scares you, but its aftermath. And what you've feared will happen has already taken place. This is similar in spirit to the realization that all the great new advances of medical science will have no benefit for us at all, thought we cheer them on, hope a vaccine might be ready in time, think things could still get better. Only it's too late there too. And in that very way our life gets over before we know it. We miss it. And like the poet said: The ways we miss our lives are life."
Richard Ford
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"What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly."
Richard Ford (The Sportswriter)
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