Title: The lay of the land
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Middle-aged men, Real estate agents, Divorced men, Fiction, Patients, Cancer, Frank Bascombe (Fictitious character), General
Places: New Jersey
LC classification: PS3556.O713 L39 2006