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基本信息·出版社：Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
·页码：451 页
·出版日期：2006年01月
·ISBN：0747586373
·条形码：9780747586371
·装帧：平装
内容简介 This is one of the most acclaimed novels of the last two decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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.
作者简介 Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, Wildlife, A Multitude of Sins and The Lay of the Land, published by Bloomsbury in October 2006. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
His long-awaited new novel, The Lay of the Land, is a further Frank Bascombe story,after the bestselling The Sportswriter and Independence Day. Watch a short film on the book.
Settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made; dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquility he had anticipated is not to be, as life in the Permanent Period proves as ambivalent, precarious and full of possibility as life had ever been. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece, published by Bloomsbury in October 2006.
专业书评 "It is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself … an extraordinary epic"
---The Times
‘The best novel out of America in many years, a funny, achingly sad account of a father’s disastrous outing with his son – and much else besides … Simply, a masterpiece’
---John Banville, Guardian
‘Ford’s mature prose style, with its long, sinuous, lavishly articulate sentences, is now one of the glories of modern American writing’
---Jonathan Raban, Observer
‘My novel of the year is Independence Day, the unexpectedly symphonic sequel to The Sportswriter, which is coming to be seen as the landmark American novel of the decade’
---Gordon Burn, Independent
