Independence Day, Richard Ford general fiction The Man Who Mistook His

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction

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Independence Day, Richard Ford general fiction The Man Who Mistook HisAfter the disintegration of his family, the ruin of his career and an affair with a much younger woman, Frank Bascombe decides that the surest route to a normal American life is to become an estate agent in Haddam, New Jersey. Frank blunders through the suburban citadels of the Eastern Seaboard and avoids engaging in life until the sudden, cataclysmic events of a Fourth of July weekend with his son jolt him back.