Independence day

Like most people, Frank Bascombe of New Jersey, a divorced realtor, has plans for the Fourth of July weekend: find a new home for a client, see his semi-girlfriend and take his son to a sports hall of fame. Instead, one disappointment follows another, but he takes them in his stride -- philosophical...

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Main Author: Ford, Richard, 1944-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1995.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Ford, Richard, 1944- Frank Bascombe book ; 2.
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Summary:Like most people, Frank Bascombe of New Jersey, a divorced realtor, has plans for the Fourth of July weekend: find a new home for a client, see his semi-girlfriend and take his son to a sports hall of fame. Instead, one disappointment follows another, but he takes them in his stride -- philosophically. By the author of The Sportswriter.
Physical Description:451 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780679492658
0679492658
9780679735182
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.

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