Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
240 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
A Frank Bascombe book ; [4] |
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Ford, Richard, 1944-
Frank Bascombe book ; 4.
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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. |
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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. |
Contents |
I'm here -- Everything could be worse -- The new normal -- Deaths of others. |
Subject |
Divorced men -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
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New Jersey -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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ISBN |
0061692069 |
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9780061692062: $27.99 |
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