
Independence Day
Frank Bascombe, Book 2
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Richard Poe
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Richard Ford
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Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction 1996
Hailed as a major American novel, Independence Day is a relentlessly thoughtful, heart-wrenching, yet hilarious portrait of an ordinary American man. Wickedly realistic details and dialog entice you to see modern life filtered through the first-person narrator's complex and evolving consciousness. Apparently directionless since his divorce, Frank Bascombe migrates from one non-committal relationship to another. He freely indulges his tendencies to self absorption, over-intellectualization, and neurotic ambivalence. But all of that changes one fateful Fourth of July weekend, when, armed with the Declaration of Independence, he embarks on a mission to save his troubled teenaged son.
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outstanding
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Everyman
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Props to the reader for sticking with this book
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Outstanding narrator
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Independence Day
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A Typical Man's Typical Weekend, Flecked with Moments of True Beauty
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Fantastic
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Great Book - Great Narrator
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