{"product_id":"2940169121339","title":"The Lay of the Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eBONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    With \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later ¿ after \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/i\u003e won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award ¿ was hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe Times of London\u003c\/i\u003e as ¿an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    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.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Richard Ford¿s first novel in over a decade: the funniest, most engaging (and explosive) book he¿s written, and a major literary event.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114088251632,"sku":"2940169121339","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169121339_p0.jpg?v=1763673294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169121339","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}