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The Lay of the Land

By Richard Ford

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| Paperback | 9780747585992

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Book Description

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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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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