This Pulitzer Prize and Faulkner Prize-winning novel is one of the most important in modern American literature. An existential chronicle, almost minute by minute, about several days in the life of an ordinary person, who has experienced both ordinary happiness and ordinary grief and who is trying to understand himself, the structure of his existence, to comprehend the meaning of his own existence and the existence of the country. Here, cynical irony goes hand in hand with tremulous and almost naive hope. Frank Bascombe walks through life as if it were a tightrope and he was an inept tightrope walker. He sets off on a long and at the same time rapid odyssey, funny and bitter, in order to clear his consciousness of empty layers and get to the very core of himself. Richard Ford created an image of amazing power that evokes sympathy, rejection, rage, sympathy, contempt and admiration. Independence Day is the great novel of our time.