Richard Ford's place in American letters has been established by his five novels, and many critics consider him one of the finest contemporary short-story writers as well. While he is often discussed ...
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In the following essay, Dupuy praises Ford's The Sportswriter as a life-affirming novel that unites the themes of happiness and loss through the effective use of a first-person narrative voice....
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In the following essay, Folks contrasts the treatment of central themes in Ford's The Sportswriter and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. Folks observes that Ford's novel focuses on th...
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In the following essay, Schroth asserts that, in The Sportswriter, Ford successfully presents “a broad and complex cross-section of American middle-class life.”
I discovered Richard F...
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Teaching The Sportswriter
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The Sportswriter Lesson Plans contain 117 pages of teaching material, including:
Back in 1986, it seemed that a lot of us—and by us, I mean late-twentysomething and early-thirtysomething publishing employees in New York—were drifting. Relationships were sputtering o...
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It's easy to pinpoint the spot where a road map of New Jersey hung on the wall of Richard Ford's boathouse during the four years he spent writing his latest Frank Bascombe novel.As Bascombe meander...
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Richard Ford
Critical Essay by Edward Dupuy
And Now It\'d5s a Trilogy: The Bascombe Saga Continued
