A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory
that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank
Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter,
the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The
Lay of the Land.
In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire
American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible
and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe.
Through Bascombe--protean, funny, profane, wise, often
inappropriate--we've witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings,
achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the
twentieth century.
Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You, Ford reinvents Bascombe in the
aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives,
Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world
undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny
odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here
again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the
absolute height of his powers.