Let Me Be Frank With You, Richard Ford
Let Me Be Frank With You, Richard Ford
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Let Me Be Frank With You
A Frank Bascombe Book

Author: Richard Ford

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/04/2014


Synopsis

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA 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. 

About Richard Ford

Richard Ford is the author of The Sportswriter; Independence Day, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Lay of the Land; and the New York Times bestseller Canada. His short story collections include the bestseller Let Me Be Frank With You, Sorry for Your Trouble, Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Kristina Ford.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on May 07, 2015

Frank contemplates his karmic footprint. And I wonder, by way of a schematic, how to lead readers to this book (and the three in the series preceding it).......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 13, 2020

Let Me Be Frank With You is the 4th and last volume of the stories of Frank Boscombe by Richard Ford, (The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land being the previous installments. I reviewed the first two and am waiting for the 3rd one to arrive at my library. Let Me Be Frank With You......more

Goodreads review by Jim on December 05, 2014

The title of this book is annoyingly cute, but I could not not read it. It is probably the last (the author is 70) of Richard Ford’s richly textured, deeply observant Frank Bascomb books. Beginning with The Sportswriter in 1986 (when I was a newly minted professor and a father-in-training) through I......more

Goodreads review by Nood-Lesse on April 14, 2022

Siamo sempre circondati solo da noi stessi Ho pensato a quelle rare volte in cui non avrei voluto abbandonare un personaggio, e mi sono venuti in mente i nomi di Jean, Edmond, Morris, Harry… c’ho pensato perché con Frank non mi è successo. Il quarto libro della Bascombe saga (*1) ha un inizio tutt’al......more

Goodreads review by Rafa on December 25, 2015

Con ningún personaje me he sentido más identificado que con Frank Bascombe. Mi libro del año.......more