TY - BOOK AU - Ford,Richard TI - Let me be Frank with you T2 - Frank Bascombe book SN - 9780061692079 U1 - 813.54 PY - 2015/// CY - New York, NY PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Divorced men KW - Fiction KW - Middle-aged men KW - Hurricanes KW - Hurricane Sandy, 2012 KW - New Jersey N1 - I'm here -- Everything could be worse -- The new normal -- Deaths of others N2 - In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend; Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment ER -