Independence Day by Richard Ford

Independence Day by Richard Ford

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.

Richard Ford graduated in botany from University College, London, followed by a postgraduate course specialising in plant pathology at Cambridge University. After 25 years in the crop protecting industry, Richard with his wife Mary set up Park Green Nurseries, which has now been established for over 25 years and specializes in Hostas. Richard and Mary have been awarded 180 gold medals for their hosta displays, this tally includes over 60 Royal Horticultural Society gold medals with seven awarded at the Chelsea Flower Show.

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ISBN 13	9780679735182
ISBN 10	0679735186
Title	Independence Day
Author	Richard Ford
Series	Bascombe Trilogy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-05-07
Number of pages	464
Prizes	Winner of PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1996, Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1996
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