Zoning Out and In
Christopher Tayler: Richard Ford, 30 November 2006
The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford.
Bloomsbury, 485 pp., £17.99, October 2006,0 7475 8188 6 Show More
by Richard Ford.
Bloomsbury, 485 pp., £17.99, October 2006,
“... firecracker, because I have to identify myself with everyone in it, including the corpses, pal. John Berryman, Dream Song When we first meet him in The Sportswriter (1986), Frank Bascombe is 38 and trying to fend off the ‘dreaminess’ that has afflicted him since Ralph, his first son, died of Reye’s syndrome four years earlier. Now divorced from ... ”