The Sportswriter.

FORD, Richard.

$75.00

Item Number: 146257

London: Collins Harvill, 1986.

First British edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford's moving novel transpires, Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life, though with his spirits soaring.