A review by vicardave
Independence Day by Richard Ford

3.0

I don’t remember much about The Sportswriter, but I do remember thinking it was magnificent. This I find harder to quantify; gorgeous writing, a beautifully drawn unreliable narrator, but I can’t shake the sense that it’s all a little dishonest …how many people really talk or think anything like people do here … especially in the middle of the novel’s only true ‘crisis’ event in the final third; some of the conversation and inner monologue then is hard to credit.