Between Them
Remembering My Parents
From American master Richard Ford, a memoir—his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman—were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the south. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944.For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-266188-3
- EAN: 9780062661883
- Produktnummer: 20447687
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.4 cm 293 g
- Gewicht: 293
Über den Autor
Richard Ford is the author of The Sportswriter and Independence Day. He is winner of the Prix Femina in France, the 2019 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Canada. His story collections include the bestseller Let Me Be Frank with You, Rock Springs, and A Multitude of Sins. He lives in Boothbay, Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford.
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