Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel -- Richard Ford, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.

Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives--sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent--Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.

In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on displays the prose, wit, and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 06/13/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780061692086

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2023
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023
Booklist 05/15/2023 pg. 16
Library Journal 06/02/2023 pg. 1