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 Richard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he pieced their stories together from anecdote, history and the occasional photograph, frozen moments linking him to another time. Edna Akin, a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty whose convent education was cut short by her itinerant parents, fell in love aged only seventeen. Parker Ford was a tall country boy with a warm, hesitant smile, who was working at a grocery in Hot Springs. They married and began a life on the road in the American South, as Parker followed his travelling salesman's job. The 1930s were like one long weekend, a swirl of miles traversed, cocktails drunk and hotel rooms vacated: New...
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En närvarande hemmafru och mor. En frånvarande handelsresande till far. Richard Ford har skrivit en ömsint och vemodig minnesbok om sina föräldrar, sydstatsparet som älskade varandra och sitt enda barn och inte ställde några större krav på livet. Berättelsen ger oss läsare en möjlighet att försjunka i våra egna minnen och upplevelser av de vuxna som gett oss livet i gåva.
