{"product_id":"be-mine-9781526661784","title":"Be Mine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eRichard Ford's Frank Bascombe series is a modern American fiction masterpiece, exploring mortality, happiness, and the great American midway. In the twilight of his days, Frank faces down mortality and confronts what happiness might signify at life's end. Ford's finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure, creating a reading experience that feels truer than your own experience. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 18 July 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Fords Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. 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Unconstrained,astute,provocative,often laugh-out-loud funny,Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.   ‘A literary project matched in ambition only by John Updikes Rabbit series  FINANCIAL TIMES      ‘Fords finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure  DAILY MAIL     ‘Ford creates a reading experience that feels truer than your own experience ... Think of Be Mine as a chance to spend a last few hours with a friend    THE TIMES      ‘Fords Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. A fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion  INDEPENDENT    In the run up to Christmas,we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a man who has occupied many colourful lives – sportswriter,father,husband,ex-husband,friend,real estate agent – but now Frank finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son,Paul,diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winters odyssey to Mount Rushmore,Frank faces down the mortality assured each of us, and confronts what happiness might signify at lifes end.   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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFords Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion  INDEPENDENT\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eIn the run up to Christmas,we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a man who has occupied many colourful lives – sportswriter,father,husband,ex-husband,friend,real estate agent – but now Frank finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son,Paul,diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winters odyssey to Mount Rushmore,Frank faces down the mortality assured each of us,and confronts what happiness might signify at lifes end.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eOver 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. 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