The Sportswriter

The Sportswriter
Title The Sportswriter PDF eBook
Author Richard Ford
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 455
Release 2012-06-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1408835118

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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.

Let Me Be Frank With You

Let Me Be Frank With You
Title Let Me Be Frank With You PDF eBook
Author Richard Ford
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 194
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1408853507

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Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford – and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle – the tumult of the world we live in.

Independence Day

Independence Day
Title Independence Day PDF eBook
Author Richard Ford
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 467
Release 2012-06-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1408835088

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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 weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception.

Over Time

Over Time
Title Over Time PDF eBook
Author Frank Deford
Publisher Grove Press
Pages 354
Release 2013-04-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780802146069

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A history of American sportswriting by the Emmy Award-winning Sports Illustrated writer traces the lurid early days of the Police Gazette through the current state of ESPN, providing coverage of such personal topics as his stint with the National Sports Daily, his visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe and his recent 1,500th commentary on NPR's Morning Edition.

The Bascombe Novels

The Bascombe Novels
Title The Bascombe Novels PDF eBook
Author Richard Ford
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 1660
Release 2012-10-11
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1408838397

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This trilogy of brilliant novels - The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever brilliantly and hilariously observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune's rise and his family's fragmentation and reintegration. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition in all its pathos, humour, beauty and strangeness, Richard Ford transforms Frank Bascombe's life into a riveting moving parable of life in America today.

Blood Horses

Blood Horses
Title Blood Horses PDF eBook
Author John Jeremiah Sullivan
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 278
Release 2004
Genre Nature
ISBN 0374172811

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The son of veteran sportwriter Mike Sullivan describes his two years following horses across the country.

The Lay of the Land

The Lay of the Land
Title The Lay of the Land PDF eBook
Author Richard Ford
Publisher Vintage
Pages 496
Release 2006-10-24
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307267121

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter brings back the unforgettable Frank Bascombe in this astonishing meditation on modern-day America. A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father—Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a post-nuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms “the Permanent Period” is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time. Also available in the Bascombe Trilogy: The Sportswriter and Independence Day