"The book is a reflective work that invites reflection, a novel that charms us with the freshness of its vision and touches us with the perplexities of a 'lost' narrator who for once is neither a drunkard nor a nilhist but a wistful, hopeful man adrift in his own humanity". Robert Towers, New York Review of Books

The novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers, is the story of Frank Bascombe, a good-hearted man struggling for equilibrium in the after-math of divorce and bereavement.

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