Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: FS.E DR Ford / College 1a - Fremdsprachen-Bibliothek / Sammlung Duffek	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Scheinbar gelassen plant der Immobilienmakler Frank im Jahr 2000 ein Fest, zu dem er unliebsame Gäste erwartet. Er macht sich so seine Gedanken über die Lebensphase ab 55 und über die Hängepartie bei den Wahlen zwischen Gore und Bush. - Ein Porträt der amerikanischen Gesellschaft.It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece.Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published six other novels and two previous collections of stories which include The Sportswriter, Independence Day and most recently A Multitude of Sins. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and ,the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.