A Multitude of Sins: Stories
by Richard Ford (Knopf, H, $25.00)

One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.

Author of The Sportswriter and Independence Day, Ford is a smart and insightful writer with a sure and steady hand.

He is the author of five novels and two other collections of stories. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to receive both honors. He has also received the PEN/Malamud Award.

"Nobody now writing looks more like an American classic."
The New York Times Book Review