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Also by Richard Ford:

Be Mine, June 2023
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Independence Day, May 1996
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
By: Richard Ford

The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.

Vintage
May 1996
On Sale: May 7, 1996
464 pages
ISBN: 0679735186
EAN: 9780679735182
Trade Size (reprint)
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Fiction

In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction, and in so doing gives us an indelible portrait of America.

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 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.

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