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    "description": "<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br>National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist<br>A <i>New York Times</i> Best Book of the Year</b><br><br>A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father &ndash;Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain 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 &ldquo;the Permanent Period&rdquo; is fraught with unforeseen perils. An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, <b>The Lay of the Land</b> is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time.<br><br>Also available in the Bascombe Trilogy:&#160; <b>The Sportswriter,</b> and <b>&#160;Independence Day</b>",
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