Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book - Softcover

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.