The lay of the land
By: by Richard Ford
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780679454687; 9780676972481
Subjects: Middle-aged men; Real estate agents; Divorced men; Fiction
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. Now, 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.