
Be Mine
A Frank Bascombe Novel
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Richard Ford
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.
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Contemplative novel
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A masterpiece
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Father’s honesty & desire to help his son; son’s brittle, sardonic & determined courage
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Ford’s Gift is that he lets us see his World through all the minutia his Life can hold. In Be Mine he invites us along on a Cross-Country Road Trip with his Dying Son. The Sites, Sounds, and People that they meet come alive through the hundreds of little moments the Road contains and The Simple Reality of The Land and the Humanity of these everyday Americans that shine through his perfect prose.
It was a very easy and enjoyable Read, leaving me feeling quite good about the simple realities of Living. Four Stars. ****
Come, read and enjoy the Journey with Ford.
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My favorite
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Another excellent novel from Ford
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What a writer!
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A terrific insight into being the father in a separated family
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magnificent
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I’m not sure why I lol liked this book
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