num_pages: 375
description: As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Sportswriter
titlecomplete: The Sportswriter
characters: Vicki Arcenault, Frank Bascombe, Walter Luckett
genres: Literature, American, Sports, Classics, Literary Fiction, American Fiction, Novels, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 18684
places: New Jersey, Detroit, Michigan
series: Frank Bascombe
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
category: Literature
publisher: Knopf