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 | Ron Hansen's powerful retelling of the story of Jesse James's last days is deliberately unromanticized, a complex picture of a conflicted man who seems to be ready, even eager, to meet his end. |
 | Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of Richard Ford's breakout novel, THE SPORTSWRITER, and his acclaimed INDEPENDENCE DAY (the only novel to win both the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner), returns in THE LAY OF THE LAND. Though Bascombe's youthful... |
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