Between Them by Richard Ford SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2017 • Ecco

Between Them: Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING

ECCO BOOKS *Title page signed by author, Richard Ford.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Matte paper DJ has some light discoloration to front.  Book itself is like new and unread.   Dust jacket now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector. From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love. How 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, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents’ lives found their greatest satisfaction. Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapes—our parents’ lives—the award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.