Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accident took his elder son. In the course of this Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic with spirits soaring. This is a magnificent novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers.
Richard Ford
Canada
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.
In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war... Buy or find out more →
Lay Of The Land
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
WithThe Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – afterIndependence Daywon both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed byThe Timesof London as “an extraord... Buy or find out more →
The Lay Of The Land
$19.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
The new masterpiece from one of America's greatest novelists. Frank Bascombe is back. The protagonist of Richard Ford's acclaimed novels, The Sportswriter and Independence Day, is now in his late middle age. Recovering f... Buy or find out more →
Sportswriter
$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent lo... Buy or find out more →
Independence Day
$23.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel toThe Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indeli... Buy or find out more →
