Independence Day

Name: Independence Day
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ISBN: 9780679492658

ISBN-10: 0679492658

ISBN-13: 9780679492658

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard Ford

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Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend: a search for a house for deeply hapless clients relocating to Vermont; a rendezvous on the Jersey shore with his girlfriend; then up to Connecticut to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son and visit as many sports halls of fame as they can fit into two days. Frank's Independence Day,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1994 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize.