Be mine : a Frank Bascombe novel
Call Number
- FICTION FORD (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Physical Description
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"--