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Country United States Publication date March 1986 Originally published 1986 Followed by Independence Day Genres Fiction, Novel | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 375 pp Publisher Vintage Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cover artist Louie (design), Rick Lovell (illustration) Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Nominations PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Similar Works by Richard Ford, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The sportswriter richard ford
The Sportswriter is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford. It is Ford's third novel and the first of four books of fiction to feature the protagonist Frank Bascombe, 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. 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 "The Bascombe Trilogy." Ford himself refers to them as "The Bascombe Novels." In 2014, a fourth book in the series, titled Let Me Be Frank With You, was published.
Contents
In 2007, HBO announced that it was adapting the books into a six-hour HBO miniseries, but HBO subsequently dropped their option, and any future plans to adapt the novels for the screen have been shelved.
Awards and nominations
The novel was named one of Time magazine's five best books of 1986 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2005, Time also named it one of the 100 best novels in English from the preceding 82 years.