Be Mine

Richard Ford's novel Be Mine is a profound, funny, and poignant love letter to our beleaguered world. It follows Frank Bascombe, a caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS, on a winter s odyssey to Mount Rushmore. Ford's prose, wit, and intelligence make him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Richard Ford, a masterful writer, has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life over four celebrated works of fiction and nearly forty years. Through the character of Frank Bascombe, he offers an uninhibited, astute, provocative, and often laugh-out-loud funny guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowful role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS.

In a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank confronts mortality and explores what happiness might signify at the end of days. Ford's prose, wit, and intelligence shine in this memorable novel, making him one of the world's most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, and poignant love letter to our beleaguered world, hailed as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction by The Independent.

Weight: 658g
Dimension: 162 x 243 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526661760