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Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
Richard Ford
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Description for Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408853597
SKU
9781408853597
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About Richard Ford
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published eight 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
Ford here is at the top of his form ... Stylish, elegiac and funny
John Banville, Guardian Books of the Year
Funny, touching and profound
Financial Times
Exquisitely written, surprising and heart-breaking ... This is a work of understated power, intelligence and not a little mischief
Independent
Another seemingly effortless Ford masterpiece
Daily ... Read more
A huge talent. There is no denying Frank Bascombe is in ripping form and reading this makes you want to return to the trilogy
Irish Times
Written in a fresh, graceful, accessible voice ... In the supple, thickly detailed Bascombe prose, shifting effortlessly from lyrical to vulgar in a sentence ... There are many small marvels
Sunday Times
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John Banville, Guardian Books of the Year
Funny, touching and profound
Financial Times
Exquisitely written, surprising and heart-breaking ... This is a work of understated power, intelligence and not a little mischief
Independent
Another seemingly effortless Ford masterpiece
Daily ... Read more
A huge talent. There is no denying Frank Bascombe is in ripping form and reading this makes you want to return to the trilogy
Irish Times
Written in a fresh, graceful, accessible voice ... In the supple, thickly detailed Bascombe prose, shifting effortlessly from lyrical to vulgar in a sentence ... There are many small marvels
Sunday Times
Show Less