The Sportswriter by Richard Ford [FIRST EDITION] 1986 • Vintage Contemporaries 1st edition Nearby NUMA special projects director

Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices smoke and races to the rescue

9th mass market paperback printing / 1985

and raised bands on spine

a spot of sticker ghosting on rear

wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvation in its wake

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford [FIRST EDITION] 1986 • Vintage Contemporaries 1st edition Nearby NUMA special projects directorThe Sportswriter by Richard Ford FIRST EDITION [1986] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES A Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback original. 3rd Printing May, 1986. Book is near mint. Looks and reads like new. 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