Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published eight novels and four collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and the New York Times bestseller, Canada. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes. Let Me Be Frank with You was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and most recently was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain. Richard Ford lives in Maine with his wife.
Praise for Wildlife (2018): Superb ... Has an emotional richness
and subtlety you simply don’t find in most movies
*Independent*
A satisfying drama of damaged lives
*Guardian*
Measured, diligent, exacting ... with a melancholy beauty
*Daily Telegraph*
Captivating ... Adapted from Richard Ford’s novel by Dano and his
partner and fellow actor, Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is both bleak and
hopeful, revealing how families hurt each other, and how they
survive
*New Statesman*
Rich and unexpected ... Adapted by Dano and his partner, Zoe Kazan,
from a Richard Ford novel, Wildlife is ostensibly about the
break-up of a marriage, but really it’s about the end of
childhood
*Sunday Times*
Superb ... A domestic drama both sad and terrifying ...
Remarkable
*New York Times*
Wildlife soars in stillness ... A marriage crumbles, largely in a
silent stillness. We watch in the same way. That’s exactly how it
should be ... A quiet stunner
*Washington Post*
Lovely and studied ... There's muted, dreamy poeticism at work,
with an aching polish, a sombre beauty thatrichly underscores all
the angst
*Vanity Fair*
A rivetingly good, human journey, full of sparks, flame, smoke,
containment, ash, and the terrible beauty that sometimes
mystifyingly colors stories of desolation
*The Wrap*
Confident and compassionate
*Slate*
Beautifully nuanced ... a portrait of a woman who can’t quite catch
up with the frustration and feminist stirrings she feels inside ...
Timelessly urgent and thrillingly alive
*Rolling Stone*
Resonant and absorbing ... It goes back to Richard Ford’s writing,
which is suggestive and metaphorical in an amorphous way. (It’s
like Raymond Carver with a deliberately blurred lens)
*Variety*
The book reminded me, first of all, of my parents, my grandparents.
There was something of them in there. There was also something both
personal and archetypal in there. I was really intoxicated by that
idea. The mystery of who our parents are. As kids crossing over the
threshold to adulthood and having a certain amount of access to
different parts of the adult world, our parents can seem different.
I think these people have been good parents until now. But they
have not been living in the present; they’ve instead been living an
idea of what their life was supposed to me. There’s an element of
‘the American dream’ in there that I love. And what happens when
you realise that you’re not going to get there
*Paul Dano, director of Wildlife*
Praise for Richard Ford's Wildlife: Hemingway updated and
outwritten by a bleak but kindly master of simple words that speak
volumes
*Mail on Sunday*
Every sentence Ford writes, illuminates. He makes you understand
what life is like for people whose daily expectation is that their
smallest hopes will be snatched away from them. His prose is
strong, clear and satisfying
*Sunday Times*
Among the very best American fiction is that of Richard Ford, who
with only three novels and a volume of short stories, has
established himself as a writer whose voice illuminates the lives
of people who live at the very edge of society ... A special
delight in all Ford's writing is the muscular poetry of his
prose
*Independent*
Wildlife is a fine novel by a fine writer. At times it brought to
mind David Byrne's movie about another American Nowheresville, True
Stories, a movie which, like Ford's book, observes the human animal
with friendship, understanding and an almost clinical
detachment
*Independent on Sunday*
Powerful and haunting
*Boston Globe*
A concise and moving story ... One comes away from this brief novel
surprised by the depth of the author's achievement
*London Review of Books*
Among the very best American fiction
*Independent*
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