Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
Author: Ford, Richard
ISBN: 9781408853597
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Dec 2015
Pages: 256 Format: Paperback / softback
Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects- ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle - the tumult of the world we live in.
ISBN: 9781408853597
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Dec 2015
Pages: 256 Format: Paperback / softback
Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects- ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle - the tumult of the world we live in.
