num_pages: 375
description: An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.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: English
title: The Sportswriter
titlecomplete: The Sportswriter
characters: Frank Bascombe, Vicki Arcenault, Walter Luckett
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, American Fiction, Literature, Sports, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 18684
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