THE BASCOMBE NOVELS [Signed]

Ford, Richard

ISBN 10: 0307269035 / ISBN 13: 9780307269034

Published by Alfred A. Knopf/ Everyman's Library, New York, NY, 2009

About this Item

Octavo, 1322 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is red, black, and gold with gold lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "U.S.A. $35.00/Canada $40.00", has mild shelving wear, a stain along the rear head edge, and mild wear along the edges. Boards are bound in publisher's red cloth, have mild bending wear along the spine tail edge. Textblock has stains along the edges, and mild shelving wear along the edges. Signed flat by Richard Ford on the title page. Shelved in Room C. 1389140. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1389140

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BASCOMBE NOVELS [Signed]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/ Everyman's Library, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307269035
• ISBN 13: 9780307269034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition, First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A trilogy of brilliant novels—The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land—that charts the life and times of Frank Bascombe, one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. 

When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed—by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune’s rise and his family’s fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition—all its pathos and beauty and strangeness—Ford transforms this ordinary man’s life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.

About the Author

RICHARD FORD is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. Ford's best known titles are The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You.