Richard Ford 
Multitude of Sins 

Only a storyteller as agile as Richard Ford could produce stories so rich and diverse on a single grand theme — love, intimacy and their dramatic failures. With felicity, humour, insight and painful candour, A Multitude of Sins exposes our failure to be sincere, empathetic, patient, honest, passionate — ultimately, to be loving — to those we desire or should merely care for. In this fine collection, human relations, indeed our entire sense of right and wrong, are put into vivid and unforgettable play.From the Trade Paperback edition.