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It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquiContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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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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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)