Let Me Be Frank with You (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780061692062)

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

A 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.

Author: Richard Ford
ISBN-10: 0061692069
ISBN-13: 9780061692062
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.20d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2014 pg. 74
Publishers Weekly 08/18/2014
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 10
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014
Booklist 10/01/2014 pg. 32
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 70
Entertainment Weekly 11/07/2014 pg. 68
Shelf Awareness 11/14/2014
New York Times Book Review 11/16/2014 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 11/23/2014 pg. 38
New Yorker (The) 12/01/2014 pg. 80
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
New York Review of Books 12/18/2014 pg. 58
BookPage 11/01/2014
Library Journal 06/01/2014