Independence Day - Ford, Richard
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'The best novel out of America in many years, a funny, achingly sad account of a father's disastrous outing with his son and much else besides ... Simply, a masterpiece' JOHN BANVILLE, GUARDIAN It is the Fourth of July weekend, and we meet Frank Bascombe in the throes of what he calls his 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But as Independence Day arrives, Frank is called into a sudden, demanding engagement with his son and with his life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the…mehr

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'The best novel out of America in many years, a funny, achingly sad account of a father's disastrous outing with his son and much else besides ... Simply, a masterpiece' JOHN BANVILLE, GUARDIAN It is the Fourth of July weekend, and we meet Frank Bascombe in the throes of what he calls his 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But as Independence Day arrives, Frank is called into a sudden, demanding engagement with his son and with his 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. 'Independence Day is a book that leaves you feeling more uplifted, more consoled, than you did before reading it ... In Frank Bascombe, Ford has created a great American character for the age' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Powerful ... As gripping as it is affecting ... Ford has galvanised his reputation as one of his generation's most eloquent voices' NEW YORK TIMES
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Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published eight novels and four collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and the New York Times bestseller, Canada. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes. Let Me Be Frank with You was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and most recently was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain. Richard Ford lives in Maine with his wife. Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Multitude of Sins and, most recently, The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.