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

"Ford is celebrated for his Frank Bascombe novels--stories swirling around the life of a middle-aged real estate agent. His profession lends itself to Ford's rich descriptions of natural land. Here, Ford places Bascombe in the wake of Hurricane Sandy."--Huffington Post, Best Books for Fall 2014

"The American master returns with another dispatch from Frank Bascombe."--San Antonio Express-News

"Bascombe is a little grumpier than before but no less introspective...As in the previous books, his fast-running internal commentary on those neighbors...is the book's engine, streaming along, carrying us from one scene to the next and binding them all together."--Town & Country

"The Pulizer Prize-winner ricochets off his 'Frank Bascombe Trilogy' of novels (The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land) with four themed stories told by Bascombe, his insightful, funny and irreverent main character now living in New Jersey."--Sacramento Bee

"Frank has reached his twilight years with his trademark wit and ruminative self-awareness intact, even if his body is starting to slide into geriatric betrayal...There's no doubt that this is the same old Frank.."Grade: B+--Entertainment Weekly

"The fact that Let Me works as well as it does is a testament to Mr. Ford's strengths as a writer and his ability to turn his hero's contradictions and discontinuities into something more like the genuine complexities of a real human being."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"The stories...serve as vehicles for Frank's witty, sad, poignant and incisive ruminations on life in America in the early 21st century... Readers of the Bascombe trilogy... are sure to be delighted at this unexpected opportunity to renew their acquaintance with Frank and see how he's coping with life's changes."--Associated Press

"Funny, touching and profound... Threading its way through all four tales is Frank's (Ford's) sometimes chilling, always wry take on mortality... The ability of slight things to forestall reflection on the weightiest of issues is Ford's rich theme here, and no one mines it more eloquently."--Financial Times

"Though his wit tends toward the acerbic, there's an undercurrent of gratitude for everything that's come to him... Anyone who's followed that life since it first appeared on the page can only feel a similar gratitude to Ford for having created it."--BookPage

"The beauty of this book lies in its encompassing humanity, its juxtaposition of gravity and wit, and the flawed duality of our protagonist... Ford illuminates parts of us all."--Portland Press Herald