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RECOVERING. WHITEY FORD, 66, retired baseball great; from cancer; on Long Island, New York. The Yankee Hall of Fame pitcher revealed he'd had a cancerous tumor removed from behind his left ear last December in an eight-hour operation. He has been receiving radiation treatment...
While Quittner was helping award prizes, another Time journalist was winning one. Correspondent Michael Duffy-who has covered both the Bush and Clinton administrations for us-received the coveted Gerald R. Ford Prize last week for outstanding reporting on the White House...
...wonder what happens to characters after the books in which they appear have ended. In fact, the better the book, the greater the illusion that its interesting people have been leading autonomous lives and are still, somewhere, doing more of the same. Most readers felt that way about Richard Ford's highly acclaimed novel The Sportswriter (1986), which left its narrator-hero Frank Bascombe in an emotional limbo after a hectic Easter weekend spent trying to accommodate the demands of his job and a new girlfriend. For all his attempts to get on with life, Frank still mourned the death...
...most part the sequel lives up to its predecessor. Frank is an entertaining storyteller, as loquacious as the people in Ford's more recent books (Rock Springs, Wildlife) are laconic. His conviction that it is possible to behave honorably-even while selling real estate-and to be useful to his fellow citizens commands respect. But his monopoly on the narrative eventually causes some uneasiness. Filled to the brim as he is with good intentions, Frank has a way of attracting misery to those around him. He reports these mishaps straightforwardly enough, but does not devote much thought or comment...
...sequel to Richard Ford's highly acclaimed 1986 novel "The Sportswriter" picks up loquacious narrator-hero Frank Bascombe six years after the previous book left off. The new book, says TIME critic Paul Gray, repeats the effective formula of "The Sportswriter:" a flurry of intense activity in the present combined with Frank's ruminations on a past that still troubles him and whose meaning he would like to pin down. Unfortunately, he never does, says Gray, and in the end Frank "remains a bigger mystery to the reader than he is to himself."Previous TIME DailyCampaign...