The Lay of the Land

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 pla…