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.
