The Sportswriter

Name: The Sportswriter
Author: Richard Ford
ISBN: 9780679762102

Richard Ford

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The Sportswriter

Richard Ford

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#3536 of 8,085 books · #1784 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1987).

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring.

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