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Let me be Frank with you / Richard Ford.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.O713 L48 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ford, Richard, 1944- author.
- Series:
- Ford, Richard, 1944- Frank Bascombe book
- A Frank Bascombe book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divorced men--Fiction.
- Divorced men.
- Middle-aged men--Fiction.
- Middle-aged men.
- New Jersey--Fiction.
- New Jersey.
- Bascombe, Frank (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Bascombe, Frank.
- Hurricanes--Fiction.
- Hurricanes.
- Hurricane Sandy, 2012--Fiction.
- Hurricane Sandy, 2012.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
- Summary:
- In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
- Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.
- Contents:
- I'm here
- Everything could be worse
- The new normal
- Deaths of others.
- Notes:
- Sequel to: The lay of the land.
- ISBN:
- 9780061692062
- 0061692069
- OCLC:
- 870564130
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