by Richard Ford
Doubleday: Excerpt from “The Waking” from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1953 by Theodore Roethke. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ford, Richard, date.
The lay of the land / by Richard Ford. —1st ed.
p. cm
1. Real estate agents—Fiction. 2. New Jersey—Fiction. 3. Middle-aged men—Fiction. 4. Divorced men—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3556.0713L39 2006
813'.54—dc22 2006025570
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Ford, Richard, date.
The lay of the land / Richard Ford.
I. Title
PS3556.0713L39 2006 813'.54 c2006-902587-8
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
eISBN: 978-0-307-26712-2
v3.0