num_pages: 381
description: It's hard to imagine a book illuminating the texture of everyday life more brilliantly, or capturing the truth of human emotions more honestly, than Ford does in his account of an alienated scribe in the New Jersey suburbs. Frank Bascombe, Ford's protagonist, clings to his almost villainous despair in a way that Walker Percy's men don't, but the book is heavily influenced by Ford's fellow southerner nonetheless. Read this and you're ready for Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel, Independence Day.
language: English
title: The Sportswriter
titlecomplete: The Sportswriter
characters: Frank Bascombe, Vicki Arcenault, Walter Luckett
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Sports, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 18683
places: Detroit, Michigan, New Jersey
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: Vintage