This is a hardback that I bought at 'the warehouse' book sale on Fr 3/30/07. I think this used to be the Sears warehouse on the far south side at Outer Park. I never read the book and I noticed that this is a signed copy by the author.
The anthology is divided into three novellas; 'The Womanizer', 'Jealous', & 'Occidentals'. I read 'The Womanizer'.
Martin Austin is an American businessman who meets a French woman in Paris named Josephine on a business trip to Europe. She has a young son and is in the process of getting a divorce from her husband. They have an affair and soon after he returns to the states he decides that he's met the 'love of his life' and leaves his wife, Barbara and plans to reunite with Josephine.
He goes back to Paris and it's not at all what he expected. The book is an example of a love affair where one person 'loves' more than the other.
It's a well written book and I plan to read the other two novellas at some time in the future.
From the author's page at Wikipedia:
"Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996 for Independence Day. Ford's novel Wildlife was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. He won the 2018 Park Kyong-ni Prize."
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