In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; and two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
- ISBN:
- 9780802144577
- 9780802144577
- Category:
- Classic fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 13-10-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 209.55x139.7x9.65mm
- Weight:
- 0.23kg
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