"An extraordinary epic.... nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself." –
The Times "Frank Bascombe has earned a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape...with a wry wit and a fin de siècle wisdom that is very much his own." –
The New York Times Book Review "Each flash of magical dialogue, every rumination a wild surprise....
Independence Day is a confirmation of a talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer." –
The New York Review of Books
"A Babe Ruth of novelists.... One of the finest curators of the great American living museum." –
Washington Post Book World "One of his generation's most eloquent voices." – Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
