Be Mine: : Richard Ford: Bloomsbury Publishing

Be Mine

Description

'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVER

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, 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.

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

'One of the finest achievements of modern American fiction' The Independent

Product details

Published	04 Jul 2023
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	352
ISBN	9781526661777
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	234 x 153 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Richard Ford

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He…

'A literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike's Rabbit series … The greatest ambition of all is that Ford has decided to make this grim material into a bright comedy, and has succeeded'

Financial Times
'Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe series - stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. Frank's story comes to a fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion in Be Mine … a joyful reminder that close attention to lived life is both renewing and affirming'

The Independent
'While the portrayal of a father-son bond torqued by the burden of illness is desperately moving,
the snap and crunch of Ford's finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure'

Daily Mail
'A funny book, with Frank and Paul's dialogue – decades of love contained within – reading at times like a comedy double act'

Irish Times
'Wounding and hilarious … The quality of Ford's prose leaves the reader breathless; there are sentences and paragraphs here you could read and re-read without ever tiring of doing so'

Business Post
'The laureate of the American middle-class middle man … Great'

Telegraph