Despitethe bleakeconomicconditions, hermother, anItalian immigrant, andher father, the childofimmigrants, wereintentonrealizing the Americandream for themselvesandtheirfivechildren.
The man himself often lived up to his bleak dream-world: lean, intense, racked by stomach complaints, and with a special fondness for the rugged limestone island of Faro, off Sweden's east coast, where he built a low stone house on an empty sweep of rock.