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In un normale weekend di Pasqua, Frank Bascombe - un uomo ancora giovane che ha rinunciato al mestiere di scrittore per diventare giornalista sportivo incontra la sua ex moglie sulla tomba del loro primogenito, Ralph, come in occasione del suo compleanno usano fare da quando è morto. Bascombe, prima della tragedia e del conseguente divorzio, si era sistemato, aveva preso moglie e si era trasferito in una grande casa nella piccola città di Haddam, in New Jersey. Desiderava una vita piacevole, tranquilla nelle sue ripetitive abitudini, in un mondo provinciale al sicuro da scosse e preoccupazioni, come tanti altri americani middle class. Gli eventi però lo obbligano ad affrontare nuove e impreviste, talora drammatiche, situazioni.
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- Pagine: 379
- Data di uscita: 14-09-2017
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Photo of the American novelist - Richard Ford Part of the Vintage Contemporaries Series , Richard Ford’s 1986 novel, The Sportswriter , is about a divorced 38-year old suburban New Jersey writer who lives out the American dream gone sour. In some ways the story reminded me of Camus’s The Stranger . What Leggi tutto
After spending hours in Frank Bascombe’s head, I am still not sure what to make of him. This book revolves around an Easter weekend in his life, beginning with an annual visit to his son’s grave with his ex-wife (referred to as “X” throughout the novel) early in the morning of Good Friday. Many thin Leggi tutto
Richard Ford - image from The Paris Review Frank Bascombe published a book once. He just never got around to writing another, veering off into the world of sportswriting. The Sportwriter shows us a week in Frank’s life in which he confronts the choices he has made as parts of his life are pared away Leggi tutto
I tried reading Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter years ago, but I wasn’t ready. Now that I’ve lived a lot more life, I get it. Most of all, I get Ford’s Everyman hero, Frank Bascombe, a 38-year-old, divorced man with two kids (one has died), who works at a sports magazine after he gave up a promising Leggi tutto
The Sportswriter started out really strong for me - seemed thoughtful and familiar and American, a bit like Stegner's Crossing to Safety. But after a while, say about 250 pages, I stopped finding the character thoughtful and subtle and started thinking he was kind of a boorish self-serving windbag.
Did you hear the one about the middle-aged white guy who has a mid-life crisis? You did! You sometimes think you’ve heard nothing else! The world is brimful of middle-aged white guys having midlife crises. Of course it’s full of many other things as well but it's been run, for so long, by middle-age Leggi tutto
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