The Sportswriter (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Ford
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1980’s
- Setting: New Jersey, New York City, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Florida
- Principal Characters: Frank Bascombe, X, Victory (Vicki) Wanda Arcenault, Walter Luckett, Ralph Bascombe
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Authors or writers, New York City, Literature, Writing, 1980’s, New Jersey, Divorce, Suburban life, Sports
- Locales: New Jersey
The Novel
In this first-person narrative, thirty-eight-year-old Frank Bascombe examines the tragedies and disappointments in his life without self-pity. Fascinated equally by the vast spectacle of life and the most mundane aspects of daily existence, Frank is satisfied by the choices life offers and the decisions he has made.
A few years out of the University of Michigan, Frank publishes a well-received book of short stories, marries a beautiful woman he refers to only as “X,” and settles into a typical suburban existence in Haddam, New Jersey, midway between New...
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