John Banville celebrates Richard Fords Bascombe books: the story of an American Everyman

We first met Frank Bascombe as a divorced father and frustrated novelist in The Sportswriter in 1986. Now in the fourth of the hugely acclaimed series he is approaching old age and has found something like peace

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