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Richard Ford is one of the best writers in America,
Potentially the very best' Gordon Burn
'A devastating chronicle of contemporary alienation' New York Times
'Richard Ford's sportswriter is a rare bird in life and nearly extinct in fiction
Tobias Wolff
At dawn on Good Friday every year, Frank Bascombe and his wife
meet to pay their respects at the grave of their firstborn. This year
Frank plans to spend the Easter weekend with a new girlfriend while
on assignment for his magazine. What should have been an idyllic
adventure becomes a succession of calamities which extinguish
almost all of the carefully nourished equilibrium of a man grappling
with the failure of love and the death of his son.
The end and the aftermath of a marriage, the emotional dislocation
and the discovery of a new life while in the embrace of troubled
memories of the old have seldom been more harrowingly plotted.
The Sportswriter is also a wistful, very funny and always human
illumination of...
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Fülszöveg
Richard Ford is one of the best writers in America,
Potentially the very best' Gordon Burn
'A devastating chronicle of contemporary alienation' New York Times
'Richard Ford's sportswriter is a rare bird in life and nearly extinct in fiction
Tobias Wolff
At dawn on Good Friday every year, Frank Bascombe and his wife
meet to pay their respects at the grave of their firstborn. This year
Frank plans to spend the Easter weekend with a new girlfriend while
on assignment for his magazine. What should have been an idyllic
adventure becomes a succession of calamities which extinguish
almost all of the carefully nourished equilibrium of a man grappling
with the failure of love and the death of his son.
The end and the aftermath of a marriage, the emotional dislocation
and the discovery of a new life while in the embrace of troubled
memories of the old have seldom been more harrowingly plotted.
The Sportswriter is also a wistful, very funny and always human
illumination of domestic and sexual anguish through the story of
Frank Bascombe, its hero, the sportswriter.
'Masterly moving This remarkable elegiac novel contemplates the desperate
sadness of life with a profound and humorous dignity. It is an original and
admirable achievement' Evening Standard
'Riveting reading a memorable book' Observer
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