The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe #1)

Richard Ford

Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
3.71 · 24 ratings · 386 pages · Published: 09 Mar 1986
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
It's hard to imagine a book illuminating the texture of everyday life more brilliantly, or capturing the truth of human emotions more honestly, than Ford does in his account of an alienated scribe in the New Jersey suburbs. Frank Bascombe, Ford's protagonist, clings to his almost villainous despair in a way that Walker Percy's men don't, but the book is heavily influenced by Ford's fellow southerner nonetheless. Read this and you're ready for Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, Independence Day.
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