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Be mine

Ford, Richard, 1944-2024
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Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost 40 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, here, once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful 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's 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.
Main title:
Be mine / Richard Ford.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781526661784 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3556.O713
Local class:
FT Pbk
Language:
English
BRN:
3910102
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