The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe series, 3)
Richard Ford, 2006
Knopf Doubleday
486 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780679776673
Summary
A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father –Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people.
His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms “the Permanent Period” is fraught with unforeseen perils.
An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Best Book of the Year. (From the publisher.)