Title: Memphis afternoons : a memoir /
Authors: Conaway, James.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Conaway, James Homes and haunts Tennessee Memphis.; Journalists United States Biography; Novelists, American Biography; Fathers and sons Tennessee Memphis Biography.; Memphis (Tenn.) Social life and customs.; Memphis (Tenn.) Biography.; Tennessee Intellectual life
Abstract: James Conaway knew there was something wrong with his father before he let himself think about it. The signs were there, in unfocused phone calls and cryptic letters, but for a time they could be ignored. Finally, on a reporting trip to Memphis, his hometown, Conaway visited his parents and faced the facts: his father was sick; he was in the early stages of what proved to be Alzheimer's disease. The dreaded illness is the inspiration for this beautifully written memoir of family and the South. As memory left his father, the author felt moved to recreate the world they had shared, to shore up as many fragments of the past as possible against oblivion.