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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

CHAPTER

The Road Trip

I realize that there are some friends who die, and I can sort of intercalate their departures in one way that's acceptable. And there's some who go, "I just can't," you know? You really do believe in this light and shade in fiction, don't you? Absolutely. The relationship between Frank and Paul is really distinctive and not always easy. They spar, they misunderstand each other. It's comic and tragic. There're no themes so human as those which reflect out of the confusion of life: Between bliss and bail.

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