FORD, Richard .
Independence Day.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1995.
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First Edition of Independence Day; Inscribed by Richard Ford in the year of publication
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Joanna. From your admirer; with gratitude Richard June 30, 1995." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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. 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).
Independence Day.
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