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Richard Ford - Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book - 9781408853481 - 9781408853481
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Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book

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Description for Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book Hardback.
In his trio of bestselling novels – The Sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land – Richard Ford set out the zeitgeist of an entire generation, through the divining and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible, provocative and anticipated characters in modern American literature. In Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408853481
SKU
9781408853481
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-4

About Richard Ford
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and four collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, Canada. His novel, Independence Day, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had ... Read more

Reviews for Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
Frank is Ford’s Everyman, a disenchanted, rueful and humorous witness to his country’s faltering resolve at the close of the American century and the opening of a new and newly menacing millennium … Late style, in Ford, is loose-limbed, allusive, jokey in a rueful way, and mutedly elegiac … The delicacy with which Frank passes over the sad awkwardness of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book


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