The SportswriterFrank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losseshis preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accident took his elder son. In the course of this Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic with