{"product_id":"9781526676146-sportswriter","title":"The Sportswriter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘My name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter' - one of the most famous lines in American literature opens this classic, inimitable tour de force\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe magnificent novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is Easter weekend and we are introduced for the first time to  Frank Bascombe. On the surface Frank’s life seems well set: he has  a younger girlfriend and a job he adores as a sportswriter. To many  men his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of longing and the memory of his recent losses – a career has ended,his wife has divorced him, and his elder son has died.  In the course of Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of  his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic with spirits aloft. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘With a mastery second to none, Richard Ford has created a character we know as well as our next-door neighbours. Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape’ \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Masterly . Moving . This remarkable elegiac novel contemplates the desperate sadness of life with a profound, and humorous, dignity’ \u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘From first page to last, \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter \u003c\/i\u003eis the work of a writer absolutely in control of his material . Ford has wrought a pitch-perfect thing of wonder . A brilliant elegiac novel’ \u003ci\u003eNEWSDAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41607563280481,"sku":"9781526676146","price":8.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28898741.jpg?v=1723024036","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526676146-sportswriter","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}