Bibliograph

Be mine, Richard Ford

Type

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Be mine, Richard Ford

Language

eng

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Form of composition

not applicable

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Intended audience

Adult

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Be mine

Music parts

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Oclc number

1374330675

Responsibility statement

Richard Ford

Series statement

Frank Bascombe, 05

Summary

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

Target audience

adolescent

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