Bascombe Trilogy: The Lay of the Land : Bascombe Trilogy (3) (Series #3) (Paperback)

from jldarden

Having read the first two installments in the Frank Bascomb series, I was prepared to like this one, and I did, at first. But as it went on it seemed to slog. I understand he has had some tragedy in his life but much of this book sounded like a pity party to me. An afterword with the author menti...

from nicktingle

The Lay of the Land is the third in Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy. The time, in this one, the few days up to and including Thanksgiving in the year 2000. The place, more or less the Jersey Shore, though overlapping with Haddam, Frank's location in Independence Day, the second in the trilo...

from witchyrichy

I really wanted to like this book with its story of Frank Bascombe as he faces the Permanent Period of his life. I'm not sure it matters that this was the third book in a series: I learned enough about Frank's past to be able to follow the narrative. And I liked Frank...he really was coming at li...

from lauralkeet

Like the first two Frank Bascombe novels, The Lay of the Land takes place over just three days. Several years have passed since Independence Day, and Frank is now 55, married for the second time, with two adult children from his first marriage. He's still in real estate but left his home town of ...

from naphta0853

The Bascombe trilogy stands besides Updike's Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy as unique and perhaps definitive examinations of the concept of "maleness" in contemporary America during the last half century.