In this powerful blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times) the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe during an Easter weekend as he moves through the great losses of his life. As a sportswriter Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight he suffers from incurable dreaminess occasional pounding of the heart and the not-too-distant losses of a career a son and a marriage. In the course of the Easter week in which Ford s moving novel transpires Bascombe will end up losing the remnants of his familiar life though with his spirits soaring.