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Independence Day

The Bascombe Trilogy

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Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.

Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception.

©1995 Richard Ford (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Wonderful novel and very well read, but there are several points at which a line reading is repeated, that should have been edited out.

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The story and the writing stand up to time, and the voice actor is very good. Unfortunately the editing has not removed any first attempts at various sentences.

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