Independence Day
by Ford, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0316288268
- ISBN 13
- 9780316288262
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0316288268 . Light edge wear, scuffing of DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.5 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 451 pages; Ford is the author now of five novels and a book of short stories, but he is probably best known for The Sportswriter (1988), widely praised as a realistic, compassionate and humorous view of American life as seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent and deeply involved observer. The man was Frank Bascombe of Haddan, N.J., and for those who came to see him as a new kind of American fiction icon, the good news is that he's back. Independence Day is an often poetic, sometimes searing, sometimes hilarious account of a few days around the Fourth of July in Bascombe's new life. Divorced, working with genuine enthusiasm and insight as a real estate salesman (not even John Updike has penetrated the working, commercial life of a contemporary American with such skill and empathy), embarked on a tentative new relationship with Sally, who lives by the sea, narrator Frank struggles through the long weekend with a mixture of courage, self-knowledge and utter foolishness that makes him a kind of 1980s Everyman. He desperately tries to find a new home for some brilliantly observed losers from Vermont, has some resentful exchanges with his former wife, takes a difficult teenage son on what might have been an idyllic pilgrimage to two sports Halls of Fame, bobs and weaves uneasily around Sally and, as the Fourth arrives, achieves a sort of low-key epiphany. .
Synopsis
Richard Ford is the author of two story collections and five novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14164
- Title
- Independence Day
- Author
- Ford, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Canadian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316288268
- ISBN 13
- 9780316288262
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- 0316288268, Frank Bascombe, sportswriter
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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