Daniel Ford
Description
Product Description
"
A richly colorful novel ... and life collides with everyone's hopes and ideals in ways that Mr. Ford endows with freshness and
...
surprise."--
New York Times Book Review
In the words of the New Hampshire statute, "now comes Theodora" to file for divorce from Colin, who'd rather march for world peace than stay home with his pregnant wife. She and the baby take refuge with Boris, photographer of nudes, who in all innocence finds himself in love for the first time in his life. Daniel Ford's debut novel is a fascinating cameo of university life in the 1960s--before Woodstock, before Vietnam, but not before student rebels.
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It is impossible not to keep on watching them, simply because they are so human and so young and selfish and opinionated and anxious ... The clear-sighted, unangry Mr. Ford will undoubtedly write another novel, which means we all have something to look forward to."--
The New Yorker
From The New Yorker
"A first novel that has wit, style, a positive point of view, and a strong sense of personality and individualism."
Review
"An effervescent eye-opener giving one an insight of today's frightened and rebellious younger generation." --
Arizona Republic, July 18, 1965
"Life collides with everyone's hopes and ideals in ways that Mr. Ford endows with freshness and surprise." --
New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1965
"Sex under the bleachers, in the univesity chapel, in campus woods, and even in bed." --
Los Angeles Times; July 18, 1965
About the Author
Daniel Ford was educated by the University of New Hampshire and the U.S. Army. Afterwards, he worked as a reporter while writing fiction in off-moments--often enough, riding a train through Germany to cover a court-martial for The Overseas Weekly. Today, Ford writes about the planes, pilots, and politics of World War II and the Cold War. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Britain, Stern Foundation grantee in Vietnam, Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, and Resident Scholar at the University of New Hampshire. At the age of 68, he learned to fly a Piper Cub almost as old as he is.
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