Update: It’s been guessed. It is “The Sportswriter” by Richard Ford. I highly recommend his work. The sequel to “THe Sportswriter” was “Independence Day”, another great book.
Here is this one. Not one guess yet.
Like I said: this author writes beautifully, sensitively, about being a man, what it means to be a man in this day and age. He’s a contemporary writer, very successful.
The book this quote is from is first of a two-book series about this one character. If I say to you: “Bill Simmons” – that will give you a clue as to the title of this book.
The SECOND book, with a great title, describes how the character becomes a real estate agent. It’s all about this guy’s life, his divorce, his love affairs, what it means to be a man …
The author can WRITE, man. There are certain sentences that just stick in your mind.
Yay for Dan – he has guessed it.
It is The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford.
Have you read it, Dan? Or was it the Bill Simmons that gave it away? :)
I’ve never read it. The Simmons clue defintely rang a bell.
I like his work a lot.
I’ll add him to my evergrowing list of ‘authors to be sampled for the first time.’
Man, I love Richard Ford. I was too busy with real world stuff to participate, but there’s no way I would have remembered that one. Be sure and read The Sportswriter first.
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