num_pages: 242
description: In his second collection of short fiction, Richard Ford captures relationships at complex and essential moments of truth — exploring the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and the need for reliance tempered by fearful vulnerability.These three stories take us from the plains of Montana to the streets of Paris to the suburbs of Chicago. In these locales, Ford’s characters experience the consolations and complications that prevail in matters of passion, romance, and love. A seventeen-year-old boy starting adulthood in the shadow of his parents’ estrangement, a survivor of three marriages now struggling with cancer, an ostensibly devoted husband entering middle age, a woman scandalously betrayed by her husband — each contends with the vast distances that exist between those who are closest together. With peerless emotional nuance and authority, Richard Ford has once again demonstrated his mastery of short fiction.Contents:- The Womanizer- Jealous- Occidentals
language: English
title: Women with Men: Three Stories
titlecomplete: Women with Men: Three Stories
characters: Barbara Austin, Charley Matthews, Martin Austin, Helen Carmichael, Josephine Belliard
genres: Fiction, Love, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, American Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Relationships
ratings_count: 1745
publisher: Vintage