The Lay of the Land: A Novel by Richard Ford Reviewed by Scott Raab
Esquire
"With The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford has finished a Frank Bascombe trilogy, which must be a relief, since by his own modest account he never intended to write three versions of what essentially is the same novel. He started the cycle in the mid-1980s with The Sportswriter, followed in 1995 by Independence Day, a Pulitzer-prize winner sometimes listed as one of the best American novels of the 20th century...." Read the entire Esquire review.