Eric Weinberger

After the trilogy (and the hurricane): the likeable return of Frank Bascombe

A review of Let Me be Frank With You by Richard Ford reveals the 68-year-old Frank Bascombe happy in his retirement despite the proximity of his ex-wife

issue 13 December 2014
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  • Let Me Be Frank With You

    Richard Ford

    Bloomsbury, pp. 240

The story of Frank Bascombe, a sports-writer turned estate agent but always a New Jersey homebody, has already taken Richard Ford nearly 30 years and three volumes to tell, totalling 1,300 pages — longer than War and Peace. But for Frank, aged 68 (and for Ford, aged 70), it’s not over.

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