Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book

Written by:
Richard Ford
Narrated by:
Richard Poe

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
3
Narrator
1
Release Date
November 2014
Duration
6 hours 24 minutes
Summary
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

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. 
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Miriam Ritchie

I liked this story more as time went on. However, I think I would have preferred reading the book rather than listening. The pace as a listener was a little slow for me, and I think it prevented me from appreciating the author's tone and humor as much as I otherwise could have.

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