Frank Bascombe novels

At the beginning of his career, a young man gives up his chance to become a successful novelist in order to work as a sportswriter.

Frank Bascombe is now contending with health, marital, and familial issues in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. At 55, he now sells real estate and is trying to handle the breakup of two marriages, a life-threatening disease and the disappointment over a son's career choice.

"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....