{"product_id":"be-mine-a-frank-bascombe-novel-9780061692093","title":"Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on displays the prose, wit, and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers.\u003cem\u003e Be Mine\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFord, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Ford \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Lay of the Land; \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eCanada\u003c\/em\u003e. His short story collections include the bestseller \u003cem\u003eLet Me Be Frank With You\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSorry for Your Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRock Springs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Multitude of Sins\u003c\/em\u003e, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Kristina Ford.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50895278276882,"sku":"9780061692093","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fdb35095-8743-4995-999e-c2158f8622c3.jpg?v=1748508906","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/be-mine-a-frank-bascombe-novel-9780061692093","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}