Between Them

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love Edna Akin and Parker Ford married young. For fifteen years they traveled the American south of the 1930s as Parker went about his work as a traveling salesman, selling laundry starch. Life was hotels rooms, roadside bars and always each other. Then a single child was born to them, and a life went a new way.Blending his parents' lives, drawing on memory, history, anecdote, Richard Ford's Between Them is a stirring contemplation of love's mystery and of loss.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ford
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781408884713
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-8471-3
• No. of pages: 179
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, Prose: non-fiction, 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Family & relationships, Family history, tracing ancestors, United States of America, USA, Biography and non-fiction prose, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Memoir; Parents, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs