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Original Title:	The Bascombe Novels
ISBN:	0307269035 (ISBN13: 9780307269034)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Frank Bascombe #1–3

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A trilogy of brilliant novels—The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land—that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction.

When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed—by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune’s rise and his family’s fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition—all its pathos and beauty and strangeness—Ford transforms this ordinary man’s life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.

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Title	:	The Bascombe Novels (Frank Bascombe #1–3)
Author	:	Richard Ford
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1352 pages
Published	:	April 14th 2009 by Everyman's Library (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Humor

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Richard Ford, born February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Comparisons have been drawn between Ford's work and the

I undertook the Bascombe novels after a friend suggested reading Richard Ford to bridge the literary abyss left by the death of John Updike. I was encouraged to believe that Frank Bascombe was a worthy successor to Rabbit Angstrom. I started with the novella Let Me Be Frank, and not entirely liking it or understanding the appeal many attribute to his character Frank Bascombe, bought the above volume and read The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land (1322 pages in toto) in the

This (the three volume book) is a great way to begin & finish the three original volumes. Im now currently reading Let Me Be Frank With You

I undertook the Bascombe novels after a friend suggested reading Richard Ford to bridge the literary abyss left by the death of John Updike. I was encouraged to believe that Frank Bascombe was a worthy successor to Rabbit Angstrom. I started with the novella Let Me Be Frank, and not entirely liking it or understanding the appeal many attribute to his character Frank Bascombe, bought the above volume and read The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land (1322 pages in toto) in the

I'd first read Richard Ford's The Sportswriter when it first came out. I remembered enjoying it all those long years ago, so I bought this trilogy to see if it (and the subsequent sequels) were as good as I had once thought. They most definitely are.

After (most of) Irving my favourite American writer. The Bascombe novels are a kind of Bible, or, according to preference, the Iliad. Incredibly funny and incredibly deep in the same time, coming along unassumingly, Frank Bascombe's life philosophy being presented as a byproduct of his daily experiences, or as in "The Lay of the Land", his single day experience.I've started the series with this last one and I was left dumbfounded - never heard of this guy before. How was this even possible?!?I