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Between Them

Between Them

Remembering My Parents

by Richard Ford
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 02/05/2017

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From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Richard Ford, a memoir in two parts on the lives of his parents--a stirring meditation on memory, connection, and love, asking how we can better understand ourselves by knowing the ones who made usWhen do we start considering our parents as real, whole people, with lives that stretch beyond our own? Edna and Parker Ford were married for fifteen years before they had their son, Richard, in 1944, and settled in a small house on Congress Street in Jackson, Mississippi. They met in Little Rock, both young and childless, and traveled together throughout the Deep South. Parker sold laundry starch out of his company Ford, a big, softspoken salesman, with natural charm, while Edna assisted, small, buoyant and black-haired beside him. Unusually for the time, as the Depression engulfed whole families in austerity, Edna and Parker lived freely, out of hotels in Pensacola, Birmingham, Mobile, and New Orleans.For Richard Ford, the question of what his parents felt, dreamed of, and loved independently of their son is made all the more significant by the brevity of their lives. In Between Them, the award-winning storyteller and creator of the beloved Frank Bascombe crafts two equally indelible characters--his mother and father--each representing unknowable swaths of time on either side of his childhood. Parker, who died suddenly when Ford was only sixteen, dominates the first half of the author's life and of his parents' story; Edna takes up the second.Ford brings his trademark candor, wit, and empathetic storytelling to the most intimate of landscapes: that of his love for two people who remain a mystery. Mining poignant details of his life in the American South during some iconic periods of the twentieth century, Between Them illuminates the writer's past as well as his beliefs on memory, relationships, and self-knowledge. "People," he writes, "are always more than we know."
ISBN:
9781538415924
9781538415924
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
02-05-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
144.78x132.08mm
Richard Ford

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published eight novels and four collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and the New York Times bestseller, Canada.

Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.

Let Me Be Frank with You was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and most recently was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain.

Richard Ford lives in Maine with his wife.

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