Elaine Ford, Author Viking Books $15.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-670-80891-5
With true love comes the need to compromise, or so Ford says in this beguiling novel. Ivory Bright is 31, with an asymmetrical face, a wardrobe culled from thrift shops, and an indomitable spirit. Raymond Bartlett is a stuffy, 53-year-old bank...
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Elaine Ford, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-14-008497-9
Ivory Bright, 31 and spirited, falls in love with Raymond Bartlett, a stuffy, 53-year-old banker cared for since his teens by his housekeeper, Lillian. This is the story of the couple's love and passion and the bewilderment of those, like Lillian,...
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Elaine Ford, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-012057-8
Characters who squander their time in laundromats, trailers, partitioned offices and Pepsi Redemption Centers here populate a hostile world. ``Ford's close-up on quietly desperate lives, like Walker Evans's famous photos, is beautiful and disturbing,
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Elaine Ford, Author Viking Books $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-82752-7
Set in a coastal Maine town, Ford's ( Ivory Bright ) engaging, bittersweet novel keeps the reader vacillating between hope and dread. The story takes place during the relentless off-season, from rain through snow to mud. Some 12 years ago, Marilla...
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Elaine Ford, Author Zoland Books $22.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-944072-80-6
Life has a way of canceling dreams in Ford's assured, bittersweet fifth novel (Monkey Bay). At the book's core is Meg, a sensitive teenager who is working at a Woolworth's when the story opens in 1962. Later, her powerful imagination is put to use...
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