Independence Day (Ford novel)
Independence Day ( original English title: Independence Day ) is a novel by the American author Richard Ford in 1995.
The book received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for both the and the PEN / Faulkner Award and was the first novel to have won both awards in one year. It is a continuation of the content of the novel, The Sports Reporters, although the novel is complete in itself.
First-person narrator and protagonist, Frank Bascombe, a real estate broker from New Jersey, the reader accompanies the weekend of Independence Day and for the protagonist has made with his son to take a trip and to address the problems that have this seems. In addition, Frank Bascombe meets this weekend including his ex-wife, his tenant, an employee, his girlfriend and a client - couple who have difficulties to find the right house.
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- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Literature (United States)
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