The sportswriter
- 367pages
- 13 heures de lecture
"My name is Frank Bascombe. I am a sportswriter"--One of the most famous lines in American literature opens this classic, inimitable tour de force.
Frank BascombeSéries
Cette série offre un portrait intime d'un homme naviguant dans les complexités de la maturité, aux prises avec la perte et cherchant un sens à son existence quotidienne. À travers ses expériences, le récit aborde des thèmes tels que l'identité, le vieillissement et la quête du contentement. Les lecteurs découvriront des histoires profondément humaines, empreintes à la fois de mélancolie et d'humour, qui font écho aux défis universels de la vie.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
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Indépendance
- 587pages
- 21 heures de lecture
Exploration minutieuse d'un pays, en l'occurrence, les Etats-Unis d'Amérique, ce livre relate quelques jours de la vie d'un citoyen ordinaire : Frank Bascombe, ancien écrivain, ancien journaliste sportif, divorcé, séparé de ses deux enfants. Mais il dévoile aussi l'Amérique, ses mythologies, son histoire, à travers le récit d'une fête célébrant l'Indépendance... Cette indépendance à laquelle Frank aspire depuis toujours, et qui lui échappe au moment où il croyait la tenir. Roman de la perte et du naufrage, Indépendance surfe avec élégance sur nos illusions perdues.
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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. In his third Frank Bascombe novel Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece.
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Let Me Be Frank With You. Frank, englische Ausgabe
- 252pages
- 9 heures de lecture
A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Through Bascombe—protean, funny, profane, wise, often inappropriate—we’ve witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century. Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You, Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers.
A trilogy of brilliant novels-The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land-that charts the life and times of 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 changed-by 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."In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened streets like a sweet lotion balm from a careless, languorous god, and the world falls in tune with its own mysterious anthems. Shaded lawns lie still and damp in the early a.m." - Independence Day
The Bascombe Novels: Written and Introduced by Richard Ford
- 1322pages
- 47 heures de lecture
A trilogy of brilliant novels— The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land —that 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 changed—by 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 fortune’s rise and his family’s fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition—all its pathos and beauty and strangeness—Ford transforms this ordinary man’s life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.
