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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Sportswriter Information
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 The Sportswriter is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford. It is about a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes a spiritual crisis following the death of his son. In 1995, Ford followed it with a sequel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day. A...
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 The Washington Post Once a Sportswriter . . .
04/15/1988: 824 words, approx. 3 pages Sports Waves columnist Norman Chad, trying to shake a writing slump, thought it might help to do this column by taking the name of a better writer. Let me tell you something, my friends-it takes a lot more than one cheap shot to... summary from source:
Columbia Journalism Review The Ex-sportswriter.
01/01/2000: 2,133 words, approx. 7 pages Need a job? Cover sports. It is one of the fastest growing fields in journalism -- several new round-the-clock networks, new magazines, and more space in newspapers -- reflecting a voracious televisionfed public demand. Yet, when Jim Gray practiced his craft on Pete... summary from source:
 The New York Observer And Now It\'d5s a Trilogy: The Bascombe Saga Continued
11/5/2006: 1,284 words, approx. 4 pagesBack in 1986, it seemed that a lot of us—and by us, I mean late-twentysomething and early-thirtysomething publishing employees in New York—were drifting. Relationships were sputtering or had foundered, our jobs felt undetermined, and we spent a lot of time over drinks in bars, wondering... summary from source:
AP News Ford aims to move on from Bascombe books
3/12/2007: 1,128 words, approx. 4 pagesIt's easy to pinpoint the spot where a road map of New Jersey hung on the wall of Richard Ford's boathouse during the four years he spent writing his latest Frank Bascombe novel.As Bascombe meandered along the highways of the Garden State, and Ford spun...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jeffrey J. Folks
6,418 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Folks contrasts the treatment of central themes in Ford's The Sportswriter and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. Folks observes that Ford's novel focuses on the themes of family, intimacy, labor, and the need for social connection.
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Critical Essay by Edward Dupuy
4,986 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Dupuy praises Ford's The Sportswriter as a life-affirming novel that unites the themes of happiness and loss through the effective use of a first-person narrative voice.
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Critical Essay by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
3,018 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Schroth asserts that, in The Sportswriter, Ford successfully presents “a broad and complex cross-section of American middle-class life.”
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The Sportswriter by Richard Ford | |
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