LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU

A quartet of masterful novellas that returns Richard Ford to the territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the lif e of Frank Bascombe, hero of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Independence Day.Richard Ford introduced the world to his protean lite rary everyman, Frank Bascombe, aspiring novelist turned sportswriter turned real estate agent, in his 1986 masterpiece The Sportswri ter. A lapidary account of the textures, sorrows, and pleasures of one mans ordinary life, it laid the groundwork for the Pulitzer Prize winn...[Read more]