richard Ford Won The Pulitzer Prize And The Pen/faulkner Award For His Modern Classic Independence Day. In This First Volume Of His Frank Bascombe Trilogy, Bascombe Is A Sportswriter Attempting To Cope With His Failed Marriage And The Death Of His Son. Unable To Establish True Connections With People, Bascombe Drifts Into And Out Of Various Relationships, But Retains An Introspective Eye That Allows Him To Transcend Life's Obstacles.
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ralph Bascombe, The Brooding Antihero Here, Is Not A Walter Matthaustyle, Cigar-smoking Sportswriter. Rather He Resembles John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom (sans Cynicism). Bascombe Has Decided In His ``mid-life Crisis'' Years To Write Heartwarming Articles For A Glossy Sports Magazine, And In The Literal World Of Sportswriting, He Has Found A Way To Avoid Life's ``searing Regret'' Without Sacrificing Its Mysteries. In Fact, Ralph Is Comfortable All Around, Living An Ordinary, Invisible Existence In The ``muted And Adaptable'' Landscape Of A New Jersey Suburb. He Has Two Lovely Children, Buddies In The Divorced Men's Club And Occasional Romps In The Sack With A Buxom Nurse. Then Comes A Crisis, With A Narrative That Becomes An Odyssey Through An Extraordinary Easter Week Of Death And Renewal That Brutally Challenges Ralph's Fragile Optimism. This Painfully Funny Addition To Ford's Two Other Masterful Novels (a Piece Of My Heart And The Ultimate Good Luck Establishes The Author Among The Best Realist American Writers Today. (march)
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Ford, Richard
Language : English
Edition : 2nd ed.
Published :1995-06-13
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0679762108
ISBN-13 : 9780679762102
Item weight : 0.7 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.9 in x 8.5 in
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