Over the course of almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an incisive and singular view of American life as lived. 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 on a last shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore with his son Paul. The final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe.