Richard Ford's place in American letters has been established by his five novels, and many critics consider him one of the finest contemporary short-story writers as well. While he is often discussed ...
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In the following review, Kennedy applauds Ford's Independence Day, calling it a great American novel about suburban American life.
To many, the 1980s were the decade of American excessȁ...
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In the following review, Burn applauds Ford's Independence Day as a considerable achievement that offers a fresh perspective on modern American life.
“Prayerful” is a word Rich...
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In the following review, Hiney describes Ford's Independence Day as well-written but crippled by a boring subject.
When a good novelist chooses a boring subject to write about, the results c...
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In the following essay, Gillespie examines representations of the “American dream” in several works of fiction and popular culture, including Ford's Independence Day.
The liter...
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In the following essay, Bone compares Ford's writing with that of Barry Hannah, in terms of both authors' designation as Southern writers. Bone argues that Ford's Independence Day...
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In the following review, Herd provides a brief overview of the strengths of Ford's The Sportswriter and Independence Day, then discusses the theme of adultery in A Multitude of Sins concluding ...
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[In the following interview, Ford talks about the act of writing, his career, and his life.]
In Richard Ford's fiction, characters wince at a painful moment, extract its grudging truth, and ...
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[In the following review, Bowman criticizes Ford's Independence Day as an example of the "Ruminative School of fiction" in which plot and character development are sacrificed for ...
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[In the following review, Johnson discusses Ford's characterization in Independence Day, and asserts that "Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom...
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[In the following essay, Blades discusses Ford's novel Independence Day and asserts that Ford's "migratory habits have only enriched his life and fiction."]
By loose def...
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[In the following review, Kakutani praises Ford's accomplishments in Independence Day, asserting that Ford moves beyond Frank's state of mind to create a portrait of middle-class America...
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[In the following review, Smith praises Ford's Independence Day for features he says Ford's readers have come to expect—the mimetic dialogue and telling detail—but points o...
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[In the following review, Rubin praises Ford's Independence Day as "a fully realized portrait of modern American life as filtered through the mind and heart of a unique, yet typical Amer...
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[In the following excerpt, Lawson compares and contrasts the adolescent angst suffered by Paul in Ford's Independence Day to that of Chappie in Russell Banks's Rule of the Bone and discu...
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[In the following essay, Hardwick praises Ford for his talent as a storyteller, tracing his use of lavish detail, strong characterization, and sense of time and place throughout his work.]
From the...
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[In the following interview, Smith talks to Ford about his life, his career, and his novel Independence Day.]
After a lifetime of itinerancy, living in 9 states and some 14 homes, the novelist Rich...
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[In the following review, Dyer praises Ford's ability to capture the psychological dynamics of a situation by describing a few simple movements.]
Richard Ford's narrator, Frank Bascom...
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[In the following review, Schroth notes that although the characters of Ford's Independence Day are searching for their independence, they are actually very interconnected.]
One of my regret...
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[In the following interview, Ford talks about the realty industry and how he used his experience with real estate agents to create the character of Frank Bascombe in Independence Day.]
When the nov...
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[In the following review, Bonner praises Ford as a storyteller and calls Ford's Independence Day "a work at the edge of philosophy but far enough away that its art still lives."]
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Teaching Independence Day
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