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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>To coordinate with the publication of its long-awaited sequel, Independence Day, Vintage is reissuing this novel. In the course of one Easter week, Frank Bascombe, a former novelist who now supports himself writing about men who live more successfully within themselves, walks the treacherous line between elation and searing regret. Profile in Vanity Fair.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for <b>Independence Day</b>, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001, he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. Ford is the author of the Bascombe novels, which include <b>The Sportswriter </b>and its sequels, <b>Independence Day </b>and <b>The Lay of the Land</b>. He lives in Boothbay, Maine.

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