Lay of the Land

Name: Lay of the Land
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ISBN: 9780679776673

ISBN-10: 0679776672

ISBN-13: 9780679776673

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Ford, Richard Ford

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Best Book of the Year A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His unc ertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms the Permanent Period is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditati on on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Lanis a magnificent achievement from…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1994 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize.