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The Lay of the Land

By Richard Ford

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| Hardcover | 9780676972481

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With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than tContinue

With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.”

Frank Bascombe’s story resumes, in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Thanksgiving looming before him with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together. He’s now plying his trade as a realtor on the Jersey shore and contending with health, marital and familial issues that have his full attention: “all the ways that life seems like life at age fifty-five strewn around me like poppies.”

Richard Ford’s first novel in over a decade: the funniest, most engaging (and explosive) book he’s written, and a major literary event.

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  • Yakkedy yak

    The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford 487pp, Bloomsbury, £17.99 Richard Ford's writing is the product of such powerful convergences that, viewed in context, there is a certain inevitability about it. Saul Bellow's first novel, Dangling Man (1944), bega ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Let's hear it for Frank

    The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford Bloomsbury £17.99, pp487 The Lay of the Land completes a trilogy that began with The Sportswriter and was followed by Independence Day. It returns Richard Ford after a decade to the voice of Frank Bascombe, a voice ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • By the middle of Independence Day, I decided that I just really don't like Frank Bascombe. He's the kind of guy who really would believe someone like me would care about his endless drives around the New Jersey landscape. And what was Ford thinking with the ending? So out of place.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 496 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0676972489
  • ISBN-13: 9780676972481
  • Publisher: Knopf Canada
  • Pub date: Oct 24, 2006
  • Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and eBook
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