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, marit...

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Main Author: Ford, Richard, 1944-
Other Authors: Barrett, Joe, 1950- (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2006.
Edition:Library ed.
Series:Ford, Richard, 1944- Frank Bascombe book ; 3.
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Summary: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."
Item Description:Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Physical Description:20 sound discs (ca. 75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:1415932816
9781415932810
Author Notes:He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize. He made The New York Times Best Seller List for his title's Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his title, Let Me Be Frank With You.

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