John Innocent at Oxford by Richard BuckleRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 688KB | 1.02MBOverview: A fantasticated Utopia, John Innocent at Oxford: A Fantasy (1939), depicts a late-twentieth-century Oxford (and hence Britain) as though Max Beerbohm or Ronald Firbank had dreamed it – extravagant, witty, class-obsessed, boneless – all hilariously rendered. It may well be the last […]
Kaidan: The Bandit’s Covenant by Richard Ford (Kaidan: The Sigil Quadrilogy 2) Requirements: .ePUB reader, 212 kbOverview: In all her life, Utako Sada had never done one thing right. Joining the gang of the Crimson Rider may have been a tempting choice at the time, but it turned out to be much less than promised. […]
Between Them by Richard FordRequirements: .MP3 reader, 99 mbOverview: Richard Ford’s parents volunteered little about their early lives – and he rarely asked. Later, he pieced their stories together from anecdote, history and the occasional photograph, frozen moments linking him to another time. Edna Akin, a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty whose convent education was cut short […]
A Multitude of Sins by Richard FordRequirements: .MP3 reader, 134 MBOverview: Only a storyteller of Ford’s remarkable agility and seriousness could produce such a rich array of stories on the single, dramatic theme of love and intimacy. A Multitude of Sins evokes, with unflinching candor, our failures to achieve what we consider to be most […]
Canada by Richard FordRequirements: .MP3 reader, 380 mbOverview: When 15-year-old Dell Parsons’ parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents’ arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future […]
