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10 de nov. de 2010 · THE SPORTSWRITER is a literary, philosophical examination of four days in the life of Frank Bascombe, a nice, ordinary guy who lives in the fictional town of Haddam, New Jersey, about halfway between New York and Philadelphia. In about two weeks, on May 4, 1984, Frank will be 39 years old.
23 de abr. de 2019 · Perhaps that comes in Independence Day, the sequel to The Sportswriter which won the Pulitzer Prize, but I’m not sure I’ll have the patience for that. I started googling Richard Ford while writing this review. And to my surprise, I glimpsed a completely different side to the generous, genial teacher we met at the seminar.
The Sportswriter is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford, and the first of five books of fiction to feature the protagonist Frank Bascombe. In The Sportswriter, Bascombe is portrayed as a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes an existential crisis following the death of his son. The sequel to The Sportswriter is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, published in 1995. After the ...
The Sportswriter is a highly acclaimed example of contemporary realistic fiction. In its exploration of the life of Frank Bascombe, a sort of suburban Everyman, the novel explores the ways in ...
21 de dic. de 2015 · He desperately wants to move beyond his past, but must first confront his perilous present. His struggle to do so makes him a great avatar of modern American existence: someone mired in the moment and trying to make the best of things. The power of The Sportswriter is rooted in Ford’s skillful depiction of Frank’s interior life. Whether ...
29 de sept. de 2016 · In 2005, Time listed The Sportswriter as one of its "All-Time 100 Novels." And the inspiration came from a place where Richard Ford barely made a ripple. From a strictly words-in-print standpoint ...
The Sportswriter. Tapa blanda – 7 agosto 2006. Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a ...
