
- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-8524-4
- Pages:
- 464
INDEPENDENCE DAY
RICHARD FORD
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in 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 extraordinary empathy and perception.