Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1995, and the PEN/Faulkner Award Sequel to the masterly novel The Sportswriter Published to coincide with Richard Ford's debut hardback for Bloomsbury, The Lay of the Land

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.