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The Sportswriter
RICHARD FORD

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
120 reviews (1986) (384p)
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

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Book Description
To coordinate with the publication of its long-awaited sequel, Independence Day, Vintage is reissuing this novel. In the course of one Easter week, Frank Bascombe, a former novelist who now supports himself writing about men who live more successfully within themselves, walks the treacherous line between elation and searing regret. Profile in Vanity Fair.


Amazon.com Review
It's hard to imagine a book illuminating the texture of everyday life more brilliantly, or capturing the truth of human emotions more honestly, than Ford does in his account of an alienated scribe in the New Jersey suburbs. Frank Bascombe, Ford's protagonist, clings to his almost villainous despair in a way that Walker Percy's men don't, but the book is heavily influenced by Ford's fellow southerner nonetheless. Read this and you're ready for Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, Independence Day.


Other Award Winning Books by Richard Ford
Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford
322 reviews (2014) (256p) (Amazon Top100) (NYT100) (PP)
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Canada by Richard Ford
839 reviews (2012) (432p) (B&N Fiction) (WP Top10) (NYT100) (Kirkus Top25) (ALA)
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The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
130 reviews (2006) (496p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon)
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Independence Day by Richard Ford
182 reviews (1995) (464p) (PP) (NBCCA) (PF) (NYTimes)
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Richard Ford Award Stats
Major Prize* Nominations 7  
Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 5  
Pulitzer Prize Wins 1 Independence Day ·  
Pulitzer Prize Nominations 2 Independence Day · Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book ·  
National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0  
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 2 Independence Day · The Lay of the Land ·  
National Book Award Wins 0  
National Book Award Nominations 0  
Man Booker Prize Wins 0  
Man Booker Prize Nominations 0  
PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 1 Independence Day ·  
PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 2 Independence Day · The Sportswriter ·  

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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