![]() ![]() Guardian Books podcast: Richard Ford on The Sportswriter. This painfully funny addition to Ford's two other masterful novels (A Piece of My Heart and The Ultimate Good Luck establishes the author among the best realist American writers today. A subreddit dedicated to discussing the works of the American novelist Richard Ford. Then comes a crisis, with a narrative that becomes an odyssey through an extraordinary Easter week of death and renewal that brutally challenges Ralph's fragile optimism. He has two lovely children, buddies in the Divorced Men's Club and occasional romps in the sack with a buxom nurse. Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of The Sportswriter (1986), is an alienated middle-aged sportswriter reflecting on his life. In fact, Ralph is comfortable all around, living an ordinary, invisible existence in the ``muted and adaptable'' landscape of a New Jersey suburb. Bascombe has decided in his ""mid-life crisis'' years to write heartwarming articles for a glossy sports magazine, and in the literal world of sportswriting, he has found a way to avoid life's ``searing regret'' without sacrificing its mysteries. The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so. ![]() ![]() Rather he resembles John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom (sans cynicism). ![]() Ralph Bascombe, the brooding antihero here, is not a Walter Matthaustyle, cigar-smoking sportswriter. ![]()
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