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The Lay of the Land

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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 attention: “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 decade: the funniest, most engaging (and explosive) book he’s written, and a major literary event.

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Series: Frank Bascombe Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9780739349212
  • File size: 716106 KB
  • Release date: October 24, 2006
  • Duration: 24:51:53

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780739349212
  • File size: 716774 KB
  • Release date: October 24, 2006
  • Duration: 24:51:53
  • Number of parts: 20

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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 attention: “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 decade: the funniest, most engaging (and explosive) book he’s written, and a major literary event.

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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780739349212
    File size: 716106 KB
    Release date: October 24, 2006
    Duration: 24:51:53

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780739349212
    File size: 716774 KB
    Release date: October 24, 2006
    Duration: 24:51:53
    Number of parts: 20

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    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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