The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe Series #3) » (Bargain)

Distinguished American writer Richard Ford is best known for a trilogy of prize-winning novels featuring one of the most unforgettable, deeply resonant characters in contemporary American fiction: Frank Bascombe, a middle-aged Everyman from suburban New Jersey.

The third installment, after The Sportswriter and Independence Day , of "an extraordinary epic."* This new novel from Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner award-winner Richard Ford marks the return of Frank Bascombe, one of the most beloved characters in American fiction. The time: The Fall of 2000 with the presidential election on-going and Thanksgiving looming with all its own perils, from the post-nuclear family get-together to explosions that will leave listeners gasping. The place: The Jersey shore, where Frank Bascombe now plies his trade as a realtor. Laugh-out-loud funny, THE LAY OF THE LAND is sure to be an instant classic. *The Times of London

The New York Times - A. O. Scott

The novel s lovely last sentence evokes "our human scale upon the land," and that touch of grandiloquence is well earned. By now, we have gotten to know Frank Bascombe well enough to take his measure, and to appreciate that, like almost no one else in our recent literature, he s life-size.