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Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land: Audiobook

Part of Thalia Book Club

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land audiobook runs 1.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Richard Ford and Isaiah Sheffer and others (about 1.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

1.6listening hrs
Literaturestore shelf
2008released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 1.6 hours, it is shorter than 76% of the 41,638 Literature audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land is an audiobook by Richard Ford: a 1.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Ford, Isaiah Sheffer and David Strathairn, released January 1, 2008, on the Literature shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
1.6 hrs
Narrated by
Richard Ford, Isaiah Sheffer, David Strathairn
Released
January 1, 2008
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literature
Series
Thalia Book Club
ISBN
9781467663922

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land audiobook?

Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land runs 1.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 1.1 hours.

Is the Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land audiobook free?

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Who narrates Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land?

Thalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land is narrated by Richard Ford, Isaiah Sheffer and David Strathairn.