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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
October 24, 2006
Pages
448
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679454687
ISBN-10
0679454683
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.75 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$26.95
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Independence Day | Let Me Be Frank With You | The Sportswriter | Canada | Independence Day | Rock Springs | Sportswriter | The Bascombe Novels | Wildlife
Independence Day | Let Me Be Frank With You | The Sportswriter | Canada | Independence Day | Rock Springs | Sportswriter | The Bascombe Novels | Wildlife
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of Thanksgiving, as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore. 150,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: With The Sportswriter, in 1986, Richard Ford commenced a cycle of novels that ten years laterâafter Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Awardâwas hailed by The Times of London as âan extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.â Now, a decade later, Frank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to lifeâs endless complexities than ever before.
His story resumes in the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving, permitting him to revel in the acceptance of âthat long, stretching-out time when my dreams would have mystery like any ordinary personâs; when whatever I do or say, who I marry, how my kids turn out, becomes what the worldâif it makes note at allâknows of me, how Iâm seen, understood, even how I think of myself before whatever there is thatâs wild and unassuagable rises and cheerlessly hauls me off to oblivion.â But as a Presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him along with crises both marital and medical, Frank discovers that what he terms the Permanent Period is fraught with unforeseen perils: âAll the ways that life feels like life at age fifty-five were strewn around me like poppies.â
A holiday, and a novel, no reader will ever forgetâat once hilarious, harrowing, surprising, and profound. The Lay of the Land is astonishing in its own right and a magnificent expansion of one of the most celebrated chronicles of our time.
His story resumes in the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving, permitting him to revel in the acceptance of âthat long, stretching-out time when my dreams would have mystery like any ordinary personâs; when whatever I do or say, who I marry, how my kids turn out, becomes what the worldâif it makes note at allâknows of me, how Iâm seen, understood, even how I think of myself before whatever there is thatâs wild and unassuagable rises and cheerlessly hauls me off to oblivion.â But as a Presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him along with crises both marital and medical, Frank discovers that what he terms the Permanent Period is fraught with unforeseen perils: âAll the ways that life feels like life at age fifty-five were strewn around me like poppies.â
A holiday, and a novel, no reader will ever forgetâat once hilarious, harrowing, surprising, and profound. The Lay of the Land is astonishing in its own right and a magnificent expansion of one of the most celebrated chronicles of our time.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (October 24, 2006)
9780679454687 | details & prices | 448 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $26.95
About: In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
About: In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (July 24, 2007)
9780679776673 | details & prices | 485 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $15.95
About: A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of Thanksgiving, as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
About: A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of Thanksgiving, as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
CD/Spoken Word
With Joe Barrett (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (October 24, 2006)
9780739339763 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 2.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $59.95
About: In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
About: In the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance, Frank Bascombe confronts the perils of Thanksgiving as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
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