'Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape, but he has done so with a wry wit and a fin de siecle wisdom that is very much his own.' New York Times Book Review It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the ...
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'Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape, but he has done so with a wry wit and a fin de siecle wisdom that is very much his own.' New York Times Book Review It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, 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 tranquility he had anticipated is not to be. Who could have guessed that his second wife Sally would walk out on their apparently happy marriage? Or that, after all these years, he would be spending Thanksgiving dinner with first wife Ann and their two children? That Ann might still, after all, feel for him what he has never quite stopped feeling for her? Life in the Permanent Period proves as ambivalent, precarious and full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel, after the bestselling The Sportswriter and Independence Day, Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision and luminous prose. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. 485 pp. Price on the front flap of the dust jacket is intact. The second printing. A Very Good book with moderate age toning to the fore-edge and bottom of the textblock in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. DJ protected in Mylar wraps. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0747581886. A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. DJ in very nice condition with protective mylar cover.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 485 pages.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First UK edition, first prnt. Precedes the US edition. Satin pagemarker. Signed by Ford on the title page. Front pastedown corner with small wrinkle; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Ford's third Frank Bascombe novel.
Add this copy of The Lay of the Land to cart. $60.00, like new condition, Sold by Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fernandina Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Bloomsbury.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First edition, first prnt. Precedes the US edition. Satin pagemarker. Signed by Ford on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Ford's third Frank Bascombe novel.
