Author: RICHARD FORD
Title: The Lay of the Land
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2006. Pp: 485. In "The Lay of the Land," the lethargic third installment of Frank`s story (it follows "The Sportswriter," published in 1986, and the 1995 sequel "Independence Day"), Mr. Ford gives us three days in his hero`s life in New Jersey. 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. ISBN: 9780747584322. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780747584322
Title: The Lay of the Land
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2006. Pp: 485. In "The Lay of the Land," the lethargic third installment of Frank`s story (it follows "The Sportswriter," published in 1986, and the 1995 sequel "Independence Day"), Mr. Ford gives us three days in his hero`s life in New Jersey. 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. ISBN: 9780747584322. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780747584322
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1557543
- Book number: 1557543