Feb 04, 2003 | 304 Pages
“One of the country’s best writers. . . . No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“Haunting. . . . In each of these stories . . . there is something as delicate as the atmosphere in a Henry James tale. . . . There is also the spirit of something ineffable . . . a yearning for the world to be better than we expect. Chekhov and Cheever mastered such miracles from everyday dramas. Ford is among their company.” –The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Wrenching, intense, overflowing with compassion, A Multitude Of Sins leads us into the restless ambiguities of the heart.” –Dan Cryer, Newsday
"Encompass[es] the comedy and pathos and wit of our dislocated times. [and] reminds us how powerful short stories can be.” —Los Angeles Times
"Scorching. . . . These stories are wry, stark, and heartbreaking–and, with the quiet moral urgency at their core, make up Ford’s most stinging collection to date." –Elle
"Robust. . . .This is vigorous writing, unfolding with the leisurely confidence that is the practiced craftsman’s best illusion." —The Boston Globe
"Very powerful. . . . Ford has a fine sense of place, be it southern, western, or foreign." —The New York Review of Books
"Reasserts claims that in the hands of a lesser author would appear quaintly old-fashioned: that our lives have real importance, that there is such a thing as sin, that all of our actions…have consequences. It is a testament to Ford’s gifts as a writer that in A Multitude of Sins this previously well-traveled ethical terrain feels shockingly new." –The New Leader
"Elegant, pristine, precise . . . these stories are indisputable proof that Ford is a contemporary master of the short story." –Esquire
"[Ford gives] a scope to private life that puts him in company with the master realists–think of Chekhov’s short fiction or the best work of F. Scott Fitzgerald." –Minneapolis Star-Tribune
