Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679735182)

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
ISBN-10: 0679735186
ISBN-13: 9780679735182
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/07/1996
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.18w x 1.05d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/23/1996 pg. 32
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 05/20/1996
Men's Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 48
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45