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Synopsis
Great Falls, Montana, is where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, 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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Review
‘A fine novel by a fine writer’ -- Salman Rushdie
‘Every sentence Ford writes, illuminates...His prose is strong, clear and satisfying, resonant with the bleak rhythms of unrewarded lives’ -- Sunday Times
‘Ford is a masterful writer’ -- Raymond Carver
‘Ford’s book observes the human animal with friendship, understanding, and an almost clinical detachment’ -- Independent on Sunday
‘This is proper storytelling, lean and taut. And it is real, grown-up life. Ford captures perfectly the loneliness that can only be had in families’ -- New Statesman
About the Author
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories. His novel Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and, two weeks later, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0099825805
- ISBN 13 9780099825807
- BindingPaperback
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Wildlife
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Hodder and Stoughton, London,, VINTAGE U.K., 1991
ISBN 10: 0099825805
ISBN 13: 9780099825807
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. SCARCE-A tight and unmarked copy-" When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlifefirst published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990 is a book whose spare poetry and expansive vision established it as an American classic.The setting 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.". Seller Inventory # 019106
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