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    Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work

    By Richard Ford

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    Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff,Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar,White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthologyexploring resonant themes of employment, service, and daily obligations asunique windows into our culture, our society, and our very humanity. With ashare of proceeds going to assist the literacynonprofit 826Michigan, this unforgettable collection of short fiction from manyof contemporary literature’s most powerful authors limns the diverse meanings of work in American culture today, even as itlooks to the future of the American workforce and its capacity to succeedcreatively tomorrow.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9780062087119
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    Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work
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    Richard Ford

    Richard Ford is the author of The Sportswriter; Independence Day, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Lay of the Land; and the New York Times bestseller Canada. His short story collections include the bestseller Let Me Be Frank With You, Sorry for Your Trouble, Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Kristina Ford.

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      Two elements make for a powerful collection of short stories. First, you need an editor with literary intelligence, the piercing eye that sees to the heart of a tale regardless of its provenance, and the wisdom to know that writers sometimes fail and that often even their less-than-perfect stories are but rough diamonds. Second you need a criterion, an overarching theme, something that pulls the collection together into a whole even before a book cover is slapped on it. Here the burning literary intelligence of Richard Ford, editor to this fine collection, more than meets the first condition. And the theme of work, in all its varieties, satisfies the second.There are more than thirty stories in this collection and virtually all of them are excellent in their way. Some are exemplars of the kind of story that is tightly associated with a particular author, such as Richard Yates’ “A Glutton for Punishment” or Junot Díaz’ “Edison, New Jersey” or Ford’s own “Under the Radar”. Some are just stunning tours de force, such as Joyce Carol Oates’ “High Lonesome” or ZZ Packer’s “Geese” or James Alan McPherson’s “A Solo Song: For Doc”. And some I just plain liked, such as Richard Bausch’s “Unjust” or John Cheever’s “The World of Apples” or Edward P. Jones’ “The Store” or Thomas McGuane’s “Cowboy” or Elizabeth Strout’s “Pharmacy”.The truth is that I liked a great many of these stories. And perhaps you will too.