The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0747581886
- ISBN 13
- 9780747581888
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Bloomsbury, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 485 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bloomsbury, London, 2006. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0747581886. ISBN/EAN: 9780747581888. Inventory No: 13080302.. 9780747581888
Synopsis
The author of five previous novels and three collections of short fiction, Richard Ford’s honours also include the PEN/Malamud Award. He lives in Maine and New Orleans.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13080302
- Title
- The Lay of the Land
- Author
- Richard Ford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747581886
- ISBN 13
- 9780747581888
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Lay of the Land
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Fiction;
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