Frank Talk

摘要

Frank bascombe is to Richard ford as Rabbit Angstrom was to John Updike: a character the author checks in on every few years, one whose wary sensibilities keep him attuned to shifts in America's psychic winds. Let Me Be Frank With You-the title is a groaner, but it suits the man's existential dilemmas-is the fourth in a series that began in 1986 with The Sportswriter. A quartet of stories set around Christmas 2012 (each Bas-combe volume co-opts a holiday), amid the physical and emotional debris of Hurricane Sandy, it's an estimable book-wise, funny and superbly attentive to the world. If this is the last of Bascombe, it's an honorable end.