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Richard Ford talks to Alex Clark about his latest novel, Be Mine - a father and son road trip across America.

Books and Authors

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How Books Moved Me Emotionally

"If something in the book doesn't make me cry, I think to myself, you're not getting this good enough," he says. "Catharsis can actually be, if you think of it in that way, quite invigorating." He describes Paul's debilitating disease as equal to crashing your car into a wall day after day with the outcome always the same.

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