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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0316288268. Light edge wear, scuffing of DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped.; 1.5 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 451 pages; Ford is the author now of five novels and a book of short stories, but he is probably best known for The Sportswriter (1988), widely praised as a realistic, compassionate and humorous view of American life as seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent and deeply involved observer. The man was Frank Bascombe of Haddan, N.J., and for those who came to see him as a new kind of American fiction icon, the good news is that he's back. Independence Day is an often poetic, sometimes searing, sometimes hilarious account of a few days around the Fourth of July in Bascombe's new life. Divorced, working with genuine enthusiasm and insight as a real estate salesman (not even John Updike has penetrated the working, commercial life of a contemporary American with such skill and empathy), embarked on a tentative new relationship with Sally, who lives by the sea, narrator Frank struggles through the long weekend with a mixture of courage, self-knowledge and utter foolishness that makes him a kind of 1980s Everyman. He desperately tries to find a new home for some brilliantly observed losers from Vermont, has some resentful exchanges with his former wife, takes a difficult teenage son on what might have been an idyllic pilgrimage to two sports Halls of Fame, bobs and weaves uneasily around Sally and, as the Fourth arrives, achieves a sort of low-key epiphany.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Canadian Edition. Eraser scar on front free endpaper. Spine leaning; else, a clean, unmarked copy in mylar-wrapped jacket.
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Very Good- 0316288268. Light edge wear, light curling of corners, crease top back corner, light shelf soil; A tight solid book. Scan available upon request. Plain white card covers with black print. This was the first issue of the book, intended to be distributed to book reviewers and book sellers only; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 451 pages; Richard Ford has created in Frank Bascome the most interesting, insightful & thought provoking character in American literature since Holden Caufield. Over the course of a Fourth of July weekend, Mr. Ford takes us on a journey that moves from the current day to flashbacks in the life of Frank Bascome. He is a real estate agent in a southern New Jersey town and one of his current clients is a couple who are looking for the ideal home. When Frank thinks he has found the right home, they have reservations. Frank never seems to be able to meet the couple's pie-in-the-sky expectations and that is central theme to the book. No matter how hard we try, we never seem to meet of own expectations in life. Frank has had a failed marriage, a failed career as a sportswriter and has entered what he calls an "existance period" in his life. He yearns for the days gone by when as he says "pride still mattered".
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As New. No Jacket. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Signed by Author(s) 1995 Knopf Advance Reader's Edition **SIGNED** by FORD on the front free end paper. In a lovely navy blue slipcase, this soft cover FIRST issue is in NEW condition and looks unread and unmarked. A wonderful copy of the extraordinary novel which won both the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner awards. Winner of one fo the best 25 novels of the past 25 years! **BONUS** Receive the 1st Edition March 1986 Softback copy of "The Sportswriter". It was originally published in softback and was the first of the Bascombe series.
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