The Lay of the Land

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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: 0747581886
• ISBN-13: 9780747581888
• Publisher: Knopf
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
• Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback and Audio CD

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