Let Me Be Frank With You

Zusatztext Richard Ford's character Frank Bascombe is a classic creation of our times and Let Me Be Frank With You may be the most overtly humorous of the Bascombe series while touching on the big issues of the day with intelligence and insight. Beautifully crafted and entirely accessible literature Informationen zum Autor 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 won both prizes. He lives in Maine! with his wife! Kristina Ford. Klappentext 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 utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy! which left houses! shorelines and countless lives unmoored and flattened! are the perfect backdrop and touchstone 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.Through Bascombe - funny! profane! touching! wise! often inappropriate - we share the aspirations and sorrows! longings! achievements and failings of American life in the morning of the new century. With his trademark candour and brimming wit! Richard Ford brings Bascombe back in all his imperfect glory to say (often hilariously) what all of us are thinking but few will voice aloud. Richard Ford returns to the territory that sealed his reputation as a master: the world of Frank Bascombe Zusammenfassung 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 utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy! which left houses! shorelines and countless lives unmoored and flattened! are the perfect backdrop and touchstone 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. Through Bascombe - funny! profane! touching! wise! often inappropriate - we share the aspirations and sorrows! longings! achievements and failings of American life in the morning of the new century. With his trademark candour and brimming wit! Richard Ford brings Bascombe back in all his imperfect glory to say (often hilariously) what all of us are thinking but few will voice aloud. ...

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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 the moments shows just what a marvellous writer Ford is John Banville, Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ford, Ford Richard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9781408853498
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-5349-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Frank Bascombe; Frank Bascombe
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature