| Record Number |
824169 |
| ISBN |
9781408838396 (Overdrive: electronic bk.) |
| Author |
Ford, Richard, 1944- |
| Title |
The Bascombe novels : The sportswriter, Independence Day, The lay of the land [electronic resource] / Richard Ford. |
| Publisher/Date |
London Bloomsbury, 2012. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Frank Bascombe 1, 2 &
3. |
| Contents note |
Downloadable eBook. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents note |
The Sportswriter -- Independence Day -- The Lay of the Land. |
| Summary Note |
This trilogy of brilliant novels - The Sportswriter When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune's rise and his family's fragmentation and reintegration. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition in all its pathos, humour, beauty and strangeness, Richard Ford transforms Frank Bascombe's life into a riveting moving parable of life in America today. |
| Subject |
Middle-aged men -- Fiction |
| Divorced men -- Fiction |
| Middle class men -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction, American |
| Psychological fiction, American |
| New Jersey -- Fiction |
| Electronic books. |
| Added Author |
Ford, Richard, 1944- Sportswriter. |
| Ford, Richard, 1944- Independence Day. |
| Ford, Richard, 1944- Lay of the land. |
| Internet Site |
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