Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of his generation's greatest writers comes the sequel to The Sportswriter, starring Frank Bascombe, who "has earned a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape ... with a wry wit and a fin de siècle wisdom that is very much his own" (The New York Times Book Review).
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an "Existence Period," selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.
Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception.
Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/07/1996
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.18w x 1.05d
ISBN13: 9780679735182
ISBN10: 0679735186
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Psychological
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an "Existence Period," selling real estate in Haddam, New Jersey, and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.
Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception.
Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/07/1996
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.18w x 1.05d
ISBN13: 9780679735182
ISBN10: 0679735186
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Psychological
About the Author
RICHARD FORD is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. Ford's best known titles are The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You.