Bascombe Trilogy
5 books in seriesThe Sportswriter Summary
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Book 1
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The Sportswriter
- The Bascombe Trilogy
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, 38, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accident took his elder son. In the course of this Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic, with spirits soaring.
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- By La Chute on 29-02-20
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The Sportswriter
- The Bascombe Trilogy
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-02-18
- Language: English
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Book 2
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Independence Day
- The Bascombe Trilogy
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 22 hrs
- Unabridged
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Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary perception.
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- By Jenny Leask on 19-03-24
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Independence Day
- The Bascombe Trilogy
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 22 hrs
- Release date: 15-02-18
- Language: English
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Book 3
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The Lay of the Land
- The Bascombe Trilogy
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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It is fall, 2000, and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been.
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Does the book justice
- By Michael Lynes on 04-07-23
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The Lay of the Land
- The Bascombe Trilogy
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 22-03-18
- Language: English
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Book 4
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Let Me Be Frank with You
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now 68, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe.
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Let Me Be Frank with You
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Be Mine
- By: Richard Ford
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful lives — sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent — Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all; caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS.
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Frank is quietly wise
- By Dearauntie on 04-12-23
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Be Mine
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-06-23
- Language: English
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