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The Lay of the Land
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Ideal for readers who appreciate reflective, character-driven fiction with a blend of humour and pathos, and those interested in contemporary American literature.
Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Frank reflects that now there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. As Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been.
A Bloomsbury super-lead fiction titleThis is the follow-up to Ford's most acclaimed novels: The Sportswriter and Independence Day
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It is autumn, 2000, and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is not to be.
In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel, Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision.
Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece.
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ISBN: 9780747585992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 June 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 736
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About the Author
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published six other novels and two previous collections of stories which include The Sportswriter, Independence Day and most recently A Multitude of Sins. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.
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