Let Me Be Frank With You
Author | : Richard Ford |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781408853504 |
ISBN-13 | : 1408853507 |
Rating | : 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford – and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle – the tumult of the world we live in.