Wildlife - Softcover

Ford, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0002710978 ISBN 13: 9780002710978

Publisher: Collins Harvill, 1990

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Seen through the eyes of a 16 year-old boy, this is the story of a family drawn west by dreams of oil boom prosperity only to find themselves on the margins of society, confronting the loss of work and the dissolution of the family. By the author of "A Piece of My Heart".

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"Powerful and haunting." — Boston Globe

"Full of prose that makes the reader shiver...a rich and readable story, a genuine narrative.... It leaves a sense of hope, a conviction that life is worth living." — Chicago Sun-Times

"One of his generation's most eloquent voices." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A Babe Ruth of novelists.... One of the finest curators of the great American living museum." — Washington Post Book World

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is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies.

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