num_pages: 496
description: 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 “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 the funniest, most engaging (and explosive) book he’s written, and a major literary event.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The Lay of the Land
titlecomplete: The Lay of the Land
characters: Frank Bascombe
genres: Literature, American, Audiobook, Psychology, Literary Fiction, Novels, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 4494
series: Frank Bascombe
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage Canada