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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 fortyyears, 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 thegreat American midway.Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful livessportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agentBascombe 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 typicalBascombe 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 acclaimedliving writers.Be Mineis a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.