Let Me Be Frank with You

<p>A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe and the landscape of his celebrated novels <em>The Sportswriter </em>the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning <em>Independence Day</em> and <em>The Lay of the Land.</em></p><p>In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature Frank Bascombe. Through Bascombe--protean funny profane wise often inappropriate--we've witnessed the aspirations sorrows longings achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century.</p><p>Now in <em>Let Me Be Frank with You</em> Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers. </p>