Sorry for Your Trouble (Ford) - Book Reviews

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Ford has a gift for nimble interior monologues and a superb ear for the varieties and vagaries of human speech.… Acutely described settings, pitch-perfect dialogue, inner lives vividly evoked, complex protagonists brought toward difficult recognitions.
New York Times Book Review


[B]oth a coherent work of art and a subtle and convincing portrait of contemporary American life among the moneyed middle class.…This is America, and Richard Ford is its chronicler. In these superbly wrought tales he catches, with exquisite precision… the irresistible melancholy that is the mark of American life.
Wall Street Journal


Richard Ford remains an author hostage to the mysterious simplicities of emotional sentiment, commendably so.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Ford’s unrelenting exploration of life’s bleakness and sadness makes these stories enervating, particularly compared to his previous work, though his clear, nuanced prose continues to impress. Ford is a supremely gifted writer, but he’s not at his best here.
Publishers Weekly


A son recalls mourning his father's death in his Mississippi youth. A past-her-prime American woman heads to Canada to say good-bye to an old lover who's dying. And a New Orleans lawyer attempts to get beyond his wife's death. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Ford in short form.
Library Journal


(Starred review) Once again, virtuoso Ford deftly sails the seas and storms of consciousness.
Booklist


[A]bout lives shattered by divorce or death, with protagonists discovering that the pieces they are trying to put together no longer fit, and perhaps never did.…  Powerfully unsettling stories in which men nearing the end of their lives wonder, befuddled, if that's all there is.
Kirkus Reviews