'Ford's 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 winter's odyssey to Mount Rushmore Frank faces down the mortality assured
each of us and confronts what happiness might signify at life's 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. 'A
literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike's Rabbit series' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Ford's 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
