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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:00pm, Thursday 29 February 2024
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place, South Brisbane 4101
For five decades the crisp beauty of Richard Ford’s prose has rendered American life with luminous clarity. With Be Mine, Ford concludes the series that began with The Sportswriter, bringing the everyman philosophy of Frank Bascombe to bear on our interesting times.
With his son terminally ill, and his twilight years preoccupied with thoughts of death, Frank Bascombe embarks on a road-trip across the land that has long been Ford’s psychic terrain. Musing with his son over life’s absurdities, Frank’s staunch ambivalence takes on new resonances with age; Be Mine is a poignant swan song from one of the most complex characters in contemporary fiction.
Join this extraordinary writer as he reflects on a singular literary career, in conversation with Venero Armanno.
#Artists
Richard Ford
Richard Ford is the author of The Sportswriter; Independence Day, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Lay of the Land; and the New York Times bestseller Canada. His short story collections include the bestseller Let Me Be Frank With You, Sorry for Your Trouble, Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins, which contain many widely anthologized stories. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Kristina Ford.
Venero Armanno
Venero Armanno is a novelist and academic at The University of Queensland. He has published twelve books and was the winner of the Queensland Premiers Award for Best Fiction Book (2002) with The Volcano.
