Independence Day

Name: Independence Day
Author: Richard Ford

by Richard Ford

Middle-aged divorced man's summer road trip amid quiet desperation

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Richard Ford

American novelist whose Frank Bascombe trilogy chronicles American male middle-class life over thirty years with sombre intelligence. Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is considered one of the finest chroniclers of contemporary American experience.

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