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The Sportswriter
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 Cover to the first edition |
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| Author | Richard Ford |
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| Cover artist | Lorraine Louie (design), Rick Lovell (illustration) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Released | March 1986 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 375 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0394743253 |
| Followed by | Independence Day |
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 third installment entitled The Lay of the Land followed in late 2006.
The novel became Ford's "breakout book" and was named one of Time magazine's five best books of 1986 and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2005, Time also named it one of the 100 best novels in English from the preceding 82 years.[1]
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