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The Bascombe Novels

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Bascombe Novels
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Ford
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:1352
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 143
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781841593197
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General
Edition Combined volume

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 27 March 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Arguably Ford's best novels - The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay Of The Land - brought together in the Everyman classic hardback edition A trilogy of brilliant novels-The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land-that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction.When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed-by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land."In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened streets like a sweet lotion balm from a careless, languorous god, and the world falls in tune with its own mysterious anthems. Shaded lawns lie still and damp in the early a.m." - Independence Day

Author Biography

Richard Ford is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. He lives in New York and Maine.

Reviews

With a mastery second to none, Richard Ford has created a character we know as well as our next-door neighbors. Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape, but he has done so with a wry wit and a fin de siecle wisdom that is very much his own * The New York Times Book Review *