Independence Day
Novel
By: Richard Ford
Date: 1995
Source: Ford, Richard. Independence Day. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1995.
About the Author: Richard Ford (1944–), novelist, essayist, and short story writer, was born and raised in Mississippi. He received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1966 and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, in 1970. At Irvine, he studied with E. L. Doctorow and Oakley Hill.
Introduction
Independence Day challenged what Ralph Waldo Emerson termed "the infinite remoteness that separates people." The novel follows Fred Bascombe, a character who debuted in an earlier Ford novel, The Sportswriter. It details Bascombe's life during his "Existence Period," a period of refuge from searing pain and regret following a series of dramatic crises, including divorce and the death of his son. To maintain a distance...
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