"The Lay of the Land" by Richard Ford: a few links

TLS Times Literary Supplement , a good review
The Esquire review, a spiteful one with nothing but envy or it so seems
The Atlantic Monthly review (who is Carver anyway?)
The Guardian review
The NY Times review
The California Literary Review
Entrevista

An my personal math: it took Ford 4 years to write this book, that makes about 125 pages a year. And that makes almost 3 days per page. Somehow, I admire that.

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To read on, "Dirty Realism". Rock Sprins online and all the others in Granta. Just possibilities.
Granta 8: Dirty Realism
(The issue of Granta that defined a new school of American writers. Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, Bobbie Ann Mason, and others. 'For the first time in two decades, something interesting is once again happening in American literature.' (Gordon Burn, The Face))
Granta 19: More Dirt
(The companion volume to 'Dirty Realism' (Granta 8): unillusioned, spare fiction of the belly-side of American life: with Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Louise Erdrich, Jayne Anne Phillips, and others. Plus: John Updike, Adam Mars-Jones, and Primo Levi.")