Independence day

Main Author:	Ford, Richard, 1944-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Frank Bascombe book ; 2.
Subjects:	Real estate agents > New Jersey > Fiction. Fathers and sons > New Jersey > Fiction. Divorced men > New Jersey > Fiction. Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:	451 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	0679492658 0679735186
Author Notes:	He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 & 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. He made The New York Times Best Seller List for his title's Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his title, Let Me Be Frank With You. (Publisher Provided)