Newsday review of AtD

[rich]

fair enough but some stories can only be told by thunderbolts, dogs, ducks,
meteors, etc....

doesn't make the stories any less profound than the wiles and despairs of
the frank bascombe's of the world. Ford actually was asked by the wall
street journal whether he or pynchon would be read 100 yrs hence. he rightly
said he hoped both would be

i think we can agree on that
rich

On 11/18/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
>
> <<it's just stupid--richard ford's frank bascomb--is he not a symbol as
> well?>>
>
>
> He may be at some level, but you're close to saying that any character's a
> symbol, which is not useful to this discussion.
>
> There are three full novels of Frank Bascomb and he's as fully developed
> as a character could be
>
>
>
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