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 drea...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 heart, and the not-too-distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage.