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Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2)
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: May 7th, 1996
- Pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.18in - 1.05in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9780679735182
- Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Psychological
About the Author
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‘Lucky American writers, for whom the dominant narrative voice of literature is so close to the lives of the people within the narrative!’ Geoff Dyer on Independence Day by Richard Ford: https://t.co/bv6g8TCTql
"Most reviewers of Independence Day have concluded that Richard Ford is one of the great American writers of our time. Surely they underestimate him... [He] may be the greatest writer of all time."
Praise for this book
"An extraordinary epic.... nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself." --The Times
"Frank Bascombe 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
"Each flash of magical dialogue, every rumination a wild surprise.... Independence Day is a confirmation of a talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer." --The New York Review of Books
"A Babe Ruth of novelists.... One of the finest curators of the great American living museum." --The Washington Post Book World
What people are saying
Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas, published every fortnight.
‘Lucky American writers, for whom the dominant narrative voice of literature is so close to the lives of the people within the narrative!’ Geoff Dyer on Independence Day by Richard Ford: https://t.co/bv6g8TCTql
"Most reviewers of Independence Day have concluded that Richard Ford is one of the great American writers of our time. Surely they underestimate him... [He] may be the greatest writer of all time."