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Book Review of Independence Day

Independence Day
Independence Day
Author: Richard Ford
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 3


This is the second book in the Frank Bascombe trilogy (along with The Sportswriter, published in the mid-1980s, and The Lay of the Land, published in 2006). The book deservedly won the National Book award for its depection of almost average guy Bascombe, a New Jersey real estate saleman and divorced dad making a pilgrimage to the Baseball Hall of Fame with his estranged teenage son.