The playhouse

Ford, Elaine

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

Abandoning a loveless marriage to be with the man she truly loved twelve years before, Marilla Pratt also leaves behind a daughter who years later exacts her revenge

Monkey Bay (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

America's 38th First Lady describes her victorious struggle against alcoholism and drug addiction

Betty: A Glad Awakening

History

Americas

DOUBLEDAY

Hardcover; Fine; Signed by Author; Dust Jacket - Like New; 1st ed, 2nd printing. Signed by author on half title. Fine in like dj

Missed connections

Random House]

“Elaine Ford’s collection roams the territory between the intellect and the heart. She writes of the human condition with precision, in language that is both grave and conversational. Her characters step out of the real world onto the page, where she develops them quietly, but with compassionate fullness. This writer grips the reader with her keen knowledge of the psyche of individuals-―their motives and secrets―and also with the surprising things that happen to them.”―Laura Kasischke, judge, Michigan Literary Fiction AwardsOf Elaine Ford’s novel, Missed Connections, the Washington Post wrote that it is a work “of small episodes, of precise sentences, of unusual clarity.” That same clarity proves an unsettling force in Ford’s stories, where precision of prose often belies uncertainties hidden beneath. In the title piece, an American woman in England, embroiled in a relationship doomed to fail, discovers how little she understands about her own desires and impulses. In another story, another American wife, abandoned in Greece by her archaeologist husband, struggles to solve a crime no one else believes to have been committed.Throughout her stories Ford touches on the mysteries that make up our lives. Each story in itself is a masterpiece of such detail and power as to transform the way we see the world.

The American Wife: Stories (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards)

Genre Fiction

University of Michigan Press

Ivory Bright

Chronicles the story of Ivory Bright, a reclusive antique toy store owner in her late twenties, and Ray Bartlett, a middle-aged insurance manager, two unlikely lovers with no common interests and no shared past

Viking Adult

Abandoning a loveless marriage to be with the man she truly loved twelve years before, Marilla Pratt also leaves behind a daughter who years later exacts her revenge

Monkey Bay

This Time Might Be Different by award-winning writer Elaine Ford is a collection of stories in which deftly drawn characters contemplate difficult choices: a young girl might have coffee with a stranger; a guy might decide to rob the local laundromat; or a widow might get in the car and just keep driving. Underneath the commonplace―running into an old lover, a longstanding feud, an unspoken divorce―readers will find a trace of dark humor, a sinister underpinning, or a profound irony. Of Ford's rural-Maine-set novel Monkey Bay, The New York Times said: "In its unsparing but sympathetic treatment of its characters and locale, Elaine Ford's book is reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth's stark paintings, which use the terrain of northern New England to explore a much larger emotional landscape."

This Time Might Be Different: Stories of Maine

Islandport Press

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