Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book, (Paperback)

from Beamis12

3.5 Frank now retired and no longer living on the coast, is quite happy not having anything to do, and looks forward to his own quiet, introspective life. As we know though, life very seldom let's us alone and so in these five vignettes Frank is approached by five people from his past, people he ...

from EpicTale

"Let Me Be Frank With You" (LMBF) is an entirely different book from Ford's "Canada" which, as my first exposure to the author, I greatly enjoyed about three years ago. Reading LMBF as a Frank Bascombe newbie, I arrived at this movie well after it was underway. LMBF paled in comparison to "Canada...

from writemoves

I was looking to read a "period" piece. I wanted to read about a character who I could identify with, particularly when it comes to age. Frank Bascombe is 68 years old - - a little older and a bit more cynical than I am. I have not read any of Richard Ford's other books so I plunged into this wit...

from seeword

Library copy. Canada is the only other Richard Ford book I have read. I liked it very much. Let Me Be Frank With You is very different. It covers a short period in the life of sixty something year old Frank Bascombe. It's divided into four parts, each one could stand alone as a short story or nov...

from tulipmedia

Richard Ford has blessed us with an original Frank Bascombe book every decade. Each work stands on its own and is a brilliant depiction of Frank's individual state of mind at the particular age of the protagonist, and a grander and just as interesting commentary on the zeitgeist of the era in que...