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Richard Ford keeps a small notebook on hand to record lines and phrases he wants to remember. Alongside many of them, he writes: “FB.” “FB” stands for Frank Bascombe, the wryly observant narrator of three of his novels. Frank first appeared in 1986, as a failed novelist in “The Sportswriter,” and returned a decade later as a real-estate agent in “Independence Day,” which won the Pulitzer Prize. When Mr. Ford’s “The Lay of the Land” was published in 2006, he was sure it was Frank’s swan song. -- The Wall Street Journal
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 15:55:01 +0000

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