num_pages: 489
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.(
language: German
title: Der Sportreporter
titlecomplete: Der Sportreporter
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: Rowohlt