The Lay of the Land

  • The Lay of the Land
    By Richard Ford

    He wanted me to see the lake, frozen and blue, and also where he'd put up his fancy covered and heated one-man practice ... with an Office Depot and a poorly patronized Sears as its anchors and -.1 lot of vacant store spaces in between.

  • The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
    By Annette Kolodny

    The Nineteenth Century Nature-the Gentlest Mother is, Impatient of no Child– —EMILY DICKINSON A conscious and determined struggle to formulate for themselves the meaning of their landscape characterizes the writing of nineteenthcentury ...

  • The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
    By Annette Kolodny

    The author argues that land is perceived as a feminine entity as evidenced in the literary writings and verbal patterns of American men 'A Fascinating Freudian psychohistory of the 'pastoral impulse' in male American literature from the ...

  • The Lay of the Land: A Self-Taught Photographer's Journey to Find Faith, Love, and Happiness
    By Joe Greer

    . . . You ask yourself what the story is that you want to tell, and let the rest unfold: Click.”—from the introduction Joe Greer never imagined he would become a photographer.

  • The Lay of the Land
    By Dallas Lore Sharp

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

  • The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3)
    By Richard Ford

    An astonishing meditation on America today and filled with brilliant insights, The Lay of the Land is a magnificent achievement from one of the most celebrated chroniclers of our time.