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At dawn on Good Friday every year, Frank Bascombe and his wife meet to pay their respects at the grave of their firstborn. This year Frank plans to spend the Easter weekend with a new girlfriend while on assignment for his magazine. What might have been an idyllic adventure becomes a succession of calamities that extinguish almost all the carefully nourished equilibrium of a man grappling with the failure of love and the death of his son. The end and the aftermath of a marriage, the emotional dislocation and the discovery of a new life while in the embrace of troubled memories of the old have seldom been more harrowingly plotted. The Sportswriter is also a wistful, very funny and always human illumination of domestic and sexual anguish through the story of Frank Bascombe, its hero, the sportswriter.
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'Richard Ford’s sportswriter is a rare bird in life and nearly extinct in fiction’ -- Tobias Wolfe
‘A devastating chronicle of contemporary alienation’ -- New York Times
‘Ford is a masterful writer’ -- Raymond Carver
‘Richard Ford is one of the best writers in America. Potentially the very best’ -- Gordon Burn
‘This remarkable elegiac novel contemplates the desperate sadness of life with a profound and humorous dignity. It is an original and admirable achievement’ -- Evening Standard
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‘A devastating chronicle of contemporary alienation’ -- New York Times
‘Ford is a masterful writer’ -- Raymond Carver
‘Richard Ford is one of the best writers in America. Potentially the very best’ -- Gordon Burn
‘This remarkable elegiac novel contemplates the desperate sadness of life with a profound and humorous dignity. It is an original and admirable achievement’ -- Evening Standard
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories. His novel Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and, two weeks later, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0099447096
- ISBN 13 9780099447092
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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