Let Me Be Frank With You

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day , and The Lay of the Land. In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Through Bascombe--protean, funny, profane, wise, often inappropriate--we've witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century. Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You , Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ford
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9780061692062
• ISBN: 978-0-06-169206-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Frank Bascombe; Frank Bascombe
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Friendship