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The lay of the land

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."

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  • "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.""@en
  • "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.""
  • "It is Thanksgiving week in the year 2000, as the contested presidential election drags on, and the boom years of the 90's are beginning to turn a corner. Frank has been treated for prostate cancer, his second wife has unexpectedly left him for her first husband, and at the age of 55, he spends a lot of time thinking about all the things he has never done, from hiking the Appalachian Trail to learning German to sleeping with a movie star. He spends even more time thinking up strategies for coping, ways to accommodate and negotiate the world without inflicting further damage on his already fragile sense of self."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "The protagonist of "Sportswriter and Independence Day", is in his late middle age. Recovering from cancer, he looks back on his marriages, friendships, children, and career. Featuring understated irony, this book is a portrait of a seemingly ordinary man as he assesses the life he has led."
  • "[This story of Frank Bascombe] resumes in the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving.... As a Presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him along with crises both marital and medical, Frank discovers that what he terms the Permanent Period is fraught with unforeseen perils. -Dust jacket."

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  • "Melodramatic fiction"@en
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  • "The lay of the land [a novel]"
  • "The lay of the land a novel"
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