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Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great...

By chance a man and a woman who had a past together meet in a bar in New Orleans; a boy marked by the death of his father begins adult life; a fifty-year-old gay man waits in a hotel lobby for his elderly father;...

After years of emotional instability, Frank Bascombe finds himself growing older relatively happily. He continues to work as an estate agent in Sea-Clift, where he had gone to live with his second wife who unexpectedly left him. Soon after he discovers that he has...

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people-men, mostly-who live entirely within themselves. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring....