Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book - Tapa blanda

Ford here is at the top of his form ... Stylish, elegiac and funny * John Banville, Guardian Books of the Year * Funny, touching and profound * Financial Times * Exquisitely written, surprising and heart-breaking ... This is a work of understated power, intelligence and not a little mischief * Independent * Another seemingly effortless Ford masterpiece * Daily Mail * A huge talent. There is no denying Frank Bascombe is in ripping form and reading this makes you want to return to the trilogy * Irish Times * Written in a fresh, graceful, accessible voice ... In the supple, thickly detailed Bascombe prose, shifting effortlessly from lyrical to vulgar in a sentence ... There are many small marvels * Sunday Times *

Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle - the tumult of the world we live in.