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Author Ford, Richard, 1944- author. Title Let me be Frank with you / Richard Ford. Imprint New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014] Copies
LOCATION CALL # STATUS E&H Kelly Main Collection PS3556 .O713 L48 2014 CHECK SHELVES SCPL Marion Fiction F FOR CHECK SHELVES Descript 240 pages ; 24 cm. Series A Frank Bascombe book Ford, Richard, Frank Bascombe ; bk. 4. Note Sequel to: The lay of the land. Contents I'm here -- Everything could be worse -- The new normal -- Deaths of others. Summary In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend. Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment. Subject Divorced men -- Fiction. Middle-aged men -- Fiction. Hurricanes -- Fiction. Hurricane Sandy, 2012 -- Fiction. New Jersey -- Fiction. Psychological fiction. ISBN 9780061692062 (hbk.) 0061692069 (hbk.)
