The Bascombe Novels: Written and Introduced by Richard Ford (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

A trilogy of brilliant novelsThe Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Landthat 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 changedby 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 fortunes rise and his familys fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human conditionall its pathos and beauty and strangenessFord transforms this ordinary mans life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.