- Fiction, Fathers and sons, Real estate agents, Divorced men
Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut.
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Contemporary, classical in form, contemplative and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Ford
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 451
- Publisher
- Little Brown (Canada), Harvill, A.A. Knopf
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679735182
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