{"product_id":"book-avn4","title":"The Lay of the Land","description":"BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003cb\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/b\u003e, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after \u003cb\u003eIndependence Day \u003c\/b\u003ewon both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award – was hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ford’s first novel in over a decade: the funniest, most engaging (and explosive) book he’s written, and a major literary event.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340596322608,"sku":"BDavn4","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/269941-avn4-Square.jpg?v=1734045738","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-avn4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}