$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury / ISBN:9780747585176)
Sportswriter
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
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... 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... More »
Independence Day
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July w... More »