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Comparisons have been drawn between Ford's work and the writings of John Updike, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Walker Percy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHis novel Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996, also winning the PEN\/Faulkner Award in the same year. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"independence-day-p-b-z16","title":"Richard Ford: Independence Day [1996] paperback","description":"","brand":"Ford, Richard","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42042610647225,"sku":"9780679735182","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/ford-richard-independence-day-p-b-z16-9780679735182-32171222794425.jpg?v=1656000194"},{"product_id":"sportswriter-p-b-z16","title":"Richard Ford: The Sportswriter [1995] paperback","description":"","brand":"Ford, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47337216442707,"sku":"XG80679762102","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42042611237049,"sku":"9780679762102","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ford-richard-richard-ford-the-sportswriter-1995-paperback-52981738471763.jpg?v=1700306421"},{"product_id":"lay-of-the-land-p-b-z16","title":"Richard Ford: The Lay of the Land [2007] paperback","description":"","brand":"Ford, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51145594208595,"sku":"XV80679776673","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42042611269817,"sku":"9780679776673","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ford-richard-richard-ford-the-lay-of-the-land-2007-paperback-1171939415.jpg?v=1749308477"},{"product_id":"let-me-be-frank-with-you-h-b-z21","title":"Richard Ford: Let Me Be Frank With You [2014] hardback","description":"In his trio of bestselling novels - The Sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize and PEN\/Faulkner-winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land - Richard Ford set out the zeitgeist of an entire generation, through the divining and wit of his now-famous literary chronicler, Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible, provocative and anticipated characters in modern American literature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In Let Me Be Frank With You, Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left houses, shorelines and countless lives unmoored and flattened, are the perfect backdrop and touchstone for Ford - and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle - the tumult of the world we live in. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Through Bascombe - funny, profane, touching, wise, often inappropriate - we share the aspirations and sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of American life in the morning of the new century. 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