Rock Springs - Softcover

Ford, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394757009 ISBN 13: 9780394757001

Publisher: Vintage Contempories, 1988

Synopsis

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. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.

"Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny; and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism."--Joyce Carol Oates

About this title

About the Author:

The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction.

From Publishers Weekly:

"The stories in this collection read like textbook exercises in classic short story form . . . Ford approaches the genre with reverent precision and delivers an array of haunting, enduring images," maintained PW of these portraits of violence and betrayal among the unemployed in rural Montana.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Contempories
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0394757009
• ISBN 13: 9780394757001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236