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Independence Day

Independence Day

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Genre: Novel
After the disintegration of his family, the ruin of his career as a sportswriter and an affair with a much younger woman, Frank Bascombe decides that the surest route to a 'normal' American life is to become a real estate agent in Haddam, New Jersey. Frank blunders through the suburban citadels of the Eastern Seaboard and avoids engaging in life until the sudden, cataclysmic events of a Fourth-of-July weekend with his son jolt him back.
ISBN: 9780099447122
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