A Multitude of Sins
Author: Richard Ford
Desc: One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores in this masterful collection of short stories the grand theme of intimacy love and their failures. With remarkable insight and honesty Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they’re about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date–confirming the judgment of the New York Times Book Review that “nobody now writing looks more like an American classic.”