I first met Frank Bascombe about twenty years ago when I read The Sportswriter, a novel I was introduced to by the manager of the Loyola University bookstore in New Orleans, who later introduced me to Bascombe’s creator, Richard Ford. I’ve kept in touch with Frank over the years. We have a few things in common: both have taught college and like to write; both liv (...)
February 23, 2007
Books
Run, Frank, Run
The Lay of the LandRichard FordAlfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 496 pp.
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