FREE LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU PDF Richard Ford | 240 pages | 04 Nov 2014 | Ecco Press | 9780061692062 | English | United States Let Me Be Frank Productions Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better Let Me Be Frank with You experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Large Print. He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Let Me Be Frank with You Ford. Date of Birth:. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. 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Let Me Be Frank With You A twice-married novelist turned sportswriter Let Me Be Frank with You New Jersey real estate salesman, Frank has made words, words, words his business throughout his entire adult life. At fewer than pages, the book wraps up in the amount of time the previous two needed just to pick up a head of steam. Broken into four parts, it echoes the emotional disarray that now stalks its hero: The book is too narratively messy to function as a novel yet too coherent to quite work as a linked-story collection. As in the prior novels, a holiday is fast approaching — Christmas, this time. But the task list that gave the prior novels their narrative thrust — and their humor, because life denied Frank the order the task list signified — that list is absent. Frank is a man adrift, retired, doing only what the day demands of him without planning much in advance. Now, though, the dark humor is more elegiac. A thinner book, then, is relatively risky — Frank needs time to talk — and these more constrained narratives do at times feel more contrived. But the Let Me Be Frank with You Frank stubbornly persists. The old Frank is most potently on view in the third chapter, where he visits his first wife, Ann. So Frank is still full of it, Let Me Be Frank with You sure of himself to a fault, still bad with women — what makes that news? For all the finality that swirls around Let Me Be Frank with You, the book never takes on the garb of a valediction or a victory lap. And Ford reveals the chinks in the emotional armor, the loss of a half step, without delivering prose that reflects the same flaws. But he means it this time. More than the old lug is willing to admit. Most Recent. Richard Ford - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe and Ford attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving, wondrous, and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Frank Bascombe 4. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. William Kennedy Those of us of a certain age, grow and change in a pattern that Frank Bascombe evokes. Each book is as fresh and magnetic as the one before as it expl …more Those of us of a certain age, grow and change in a pattern that Frank Bascombe evokes. Each book is as fresh and magnetic as the one Let Me Be Frank with You as it explores the world he lives in. Frank Bascombe exists today not because of his past, but because he is alive today. Each of Ford's books resonates with a reader that cares about recognizing themselves, or a brother, a father, an uncle, grandfather or friend. Readers of all ages will love this book. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 08, Jeffrey Keeten rated it really liked it. He is, frankly, fully qualified now to claim his twilight years. There is a consistent pain emanating from his prostate, a reminder of a recent bout of cancer. His footing on a sandy beach or on an icy sidewalk is now something potentially treacherous. He is decommissioning words that he finds to be unnecessary or imprecise in expressing himself. He has decided that five friends is plenty and Let Me Be Frank with You of those five is himself. He is trying to keep his life simple. His ex-wife Ann has moved back to Haddam. 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Real estate agents are being shot, as if they could anticipate a hurricane of the magnitude of Let Me Be Frank with You devastating the coast, so a vengeful ex-client is one more thing for Frank to be worried about. His wife Sally is counselling victims of the hurricane and finds her own state of mind is spiralling downward with the daily barrage of stories of loss. It is always hard to know now, with TV dictating the proper responses to any social situation, whether one is being stoic enough or too stoic or too emotional or too cold to any given circumstance. Like everything else even our responses to tragedy have become homogenized. It has more to do with living long enough to Let Me Be Frank with You that unfortunate things Sally thinks he needs to write a book, but he has been down that road before.