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- In The Sportswriter, Bascombe is portrayed as a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes an existential crisis following the death of his son. The sequel to The Sportswriter is the Pulitzer Prize -winning Independence Day, published in 1995.
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Independence Day is a 1995 novel by Richard Ford and the sequel to Ford's 1986 novel The Sportswriter. This novel is the second in what is now a five-part series, the first being The Sportswriter. It was followed by The Lay of the Land (2006), Let Me Be Frank With You (2014) and Be Mine (2023).
The sequel to The Sportswriter is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day, published in 1995. After the third installment in the series, titled The Lay of the Land , was published in 2006, the three books together are sometimes identified as "The Bascombe Trilogy."
Frank Bascombe Series by Richard Ford. 5 primary works • 6 total works. Book 1. The Sportswriter. by Richard Ford. 3.69 · 19,143 Ratings · 1,431 Reviews · published 1986 · 89 editions. As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Independence Day. by Richard Ford.
- Early Life
- Early Career
- Mid-Career and Acclaim
- Later Life and Writings
- Reception
- Controversies
- Awards and Honors
- Selected Works
- References
- Further Reading
Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford. Parker was a traveling salesman for Faultless Starch, a Kansas City company. Of his mother, Ford said, "Her ambition was to be, first, in love with my father and, second, to be a full-time mother." When Ford was eight years old, his father had a severe heart failure...
Ford published his first novel, A Piece of My Heart, the story of two unlikely drifters whose paths cross on an island in the Mississippi River, during 1976, and followed it with The Ultimate Good Luck during 1981. During the interim he briefly taught at Williams College and Princeton University. Despite good notices, the books sold little, and For...
Ford's 1990 novel Wildlife, a story of a Montana golf professional turned firefighter, met with mixed reviews and middling sales, but by the end of the 1990s Ford was increasingly sought after as an editor and contributor to various projects. Ford edited the 1990 Best American Short Stories, the 1992 Granta Book of the American Short Story, the Fal...
Ford lived for many years in New Orleans in the French Quarter, on lower Bourbon Street, and then in the Garden District of the same city, where his wife, Kristina, was the executive director of the city planning commission. For a while Ford and his wife resided in East Boothbay, Maine. As of 2023, Ford lives in Billings, Montana where he bought a ...
Ford began publishing his short stories in the 1980s, which corresponded with an American renaissance in the short story that centered around Raymond Carver (1938–1988). So there was a tendency early on to associate Ford's stories in Rock Springs with minimalism and its offshoot, an aesthetic style known as Dirty realism that referred to Carver's l...
Ford once sent Alice Hoffman a copy of one of her books with bullet holes in it after she angered him by unfavorably reviewing The Sportswriter. In 2004, Ford spat on Colson Whitehead when encountering him at a party two years after Whitehead published a negative review of A Multitude of Sins in The New York Times. Thirteen years later, Ford remain...
1987 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction for The Sportswriter; again in 2007 for The Lay of the Land; and in 2013 for Canada1995 Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre1996 PEN/Faulkner Award, for Independence Day1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for Independence DayNovels
1. A Piece of My Heart(1976) 2. The Ultimate Good Luck(1981) 3. The Sportswriter(1986) 4. Wildlife(1990) 5. Independence Day(1995) 6. The Lay of the Land(2006) 7. Canada(2012) 8. Be Mine(2023)
Story collections
1. Rock Springs(1987) 2. Women with Men: Three Stories(1997) 3. A Multitude of Sins(2002) 4. Vintage Ford(2004) 5. Let Me Be Frank With You(2014) 6. Sorry for Your Trouble(2020)
Memoir
1. Between Them: Remembering My Parents(2017)
Works cited
1. Guagliardo, Huey (ed.) Conversations with Richard Ford Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. ISBN 978-1-57806-406-9 2. Guagliardo, Huey. Perspectives on Richard Ford: Redeemed by Affection. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. ISBN 978-1-57806-234-8
Armengol, Joseph M. Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. ISBN 978-143311-086-3Duffy, Brian. Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford. New York: Rodopi, 2008. ISBN 978-904202-409-0McGuire, Ian. Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-60938-343-5Walker, Elinor. Richard Ford. New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0805716793Sep 18, 1995 · In The Sportswriter, to which Independence Day is the sequel, Ford’s hero Frank Bascombe inhabited a world that was just large enough for his personal tragedies and philanderings and not an...
Jun 18, 1995 · At the time, "The Sportswriter" was an entertaining CAT scan of the shellshocked American psyche. It remains so today. And now there's a sequel.
Independence Day is a lyrically driven though slow-moving sequel to Richard Ford’s highly praised 1986 novel The Sportswriter, a book hailed by fellow sportswriter and novelist Fred Exley...
