The lay of the land
A sportswriter, a real estate agent, husband and father, Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His unc ertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hangs in the balance, and a postnuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms the Permanent Period is fraught with unfore...
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