Rock Springs
Ford, Richard, 1944-2006
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In these ten stories, 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, an unhappy girlfriend and a stolen Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; 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 chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
Main title:
Rock Springs / Richard Ford.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2006.
Collation:
245 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Collins Harvill, 1988.
Contents:
Rock Springs -- Great Falls -- Sweethearts -- Children -- Going to the dogs -- Empire -- Winterkill -- Optimists -- Fireworks -- Communist.
ISBN:
97807475852510747585253
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
76148