Sorry For Your Trouble: Stories Audiobook, by Richard Ford Play Audiobook Sample

Sorry For Your Trouble: Stories Audiobook

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Read By: Stephen Mendel Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062969842

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

119:12 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

46:48 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

8

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Publisher Description

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor!

In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.

“Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death.  “Driving Up” follows an American woman’s late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life.  “The Run of Yourself,” a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife’s death.  And “Nothing to Declare” follows a man and a woman’s chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what’s left of love for them.

Typically rich with Ford’s emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.

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“This is America, and Richard Ford is its chronicler. In these superbly wrought tales he catches, with exquisite precision, what Emerson in his scholarly address failed to mention, the irresistible melancholy that is the mark of American life.”

— Wall Street Journal 

Quotes

  • “This sparkling collection is drenched in retrospection; characters mull regrets and rancors that have lost their bitterness with time. Ford’s mastery of fiction extends to his gift for interior monologue and human speech.”

    — New York Times Book Review
  • “Once again, virtuoso Ford deftly sails the seas and storms of consciousness.”

    — Booklist (starred review)
  • “Powerfully unsettling stories in which men nearing the end of their lives wonder, befuddled, if that’s all there is.”

    — Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Narration Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Story Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    — William Golson, 10/30/2021

About Richard Ford

Richard Ford is the multiaward–winning author of short stories and numerous books, including Independence Day, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Both Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You made the New York Times bestsellers list.

About Stephen Mendel

Stephen Mendel was educated in Montreal, Canada, graduated from Bishop’s University with a BA in drama, and immediately began working in theater. Film and TV roles soon followed. He moved to Los Angeles, where he had roles in the CBS TV series Night Heat. He subsequently went on to guest star on numerous television shows and appear in many feature films. A master of accents and dialects, he narrates audiobooks and performs voice work in animation, narration, video games, and radio and television commercials.