The American Wife Ford Paperback LUP – University of Michigan Press

The American WifeAuthor(s): Elaine Ford\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472116201, 978-0472116201\nSynopsis\nOf Elaine Fords novel, Missed Connections, the Washington Post wrote that it is a work of small episodes, of precise sentences, of unusual clarity. That same clarity proves an unsettling force in Fords stories, where precision of prose often belies uncertainties hidden beneath. In the title piece, an American woman in England, embroiled in a relationship doomed to fail, discovers how little she understands about her own desires and impulses. In another story, another American wife, abandoned in Greece by her archaeologist husband, struggles to solve a crime no one else believes to have been committed.\n\nThroughout her stories Ford touches on the mysteries that make up our lives. Each story in itself is a masterpiece of such detail and power as to transform the way we see th.