{"product_id":"be-mine-richard-ford","title":"Be Mine (Richard Ford)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ford's Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. A fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion'\u003ci\u003e INDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike's Rabbit series'\u003ci\u003e FINANCIAL TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ford's finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure' \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE TIMES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published eight novels and four collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lay of the Land\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCanada\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes. \u003ci\u003eLet Me Be Frank with You\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and most recently was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain. Richard Ford lives in Maine with his wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published  seven novels and three collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Multitude of Sins \u003c\/i\u003eand, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Lay of the Land\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 352 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65758017388893,"sku":"K097066579","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9706657900001A.jpg?v=1788202877","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/be-mine-richard-ford","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}