by RichardFord (Author)
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in 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 extraordinary empathy and perception.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0747585245
ISBN 13: 9780747585244
Book Overview: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1995, and the PEN/Faulkner Award Sequel to the masterly novel The Sportswriter Published to coincide with Richard Ford's debut hardback for Bloomsbury, The Lay of the Land