Ford, Richard — Independence Day

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and the P.E.N./Faulkner Award for Fiction in the same year (1996), the first novel ever to do so. Frank Bascombe has a nearly mute teenage son and a head-full of American Dreams being slowly dashed. Road trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York seems to be on-tap. It's keenly intelligent, it's pitched perfectly at parental emotions. Truly, an epic novel. My favorite among Richard Ford's many fine novels. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. and NOT with the usual remainder mark. 451 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,