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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.
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`A collection of stunning impact ... which marks Ford's arrival at
the pinnacle of his craft' -- Sunday Times
`A marvellous book of short stories ... Rock Springs confirms
Ford's place among our finest writers' -- The Times
`Beautifully imagined and crafted. By turns heart-rending and
wickedly funny - and just plain wicked. Ford is a born storyteller' -- Joyce Carol Oates
`The most beautiful book of fiction ... the narrative power, the
intelligence behind these stories, is formidable' -- Los Angeles Times
About the Author:
the pinnacle of his craft' -- Sunday Times
`A marvellous book of short stories ... Rock Springs confirms
Ford's place among our finest writers' -- The Times
`Beautifully imagined and crafted. By turns heart-rending and
wickedly funny - and just plain wicked. Ford is a born storyteller' -- Joyce Carol Oates
`The most beautiful book of fiction ... the narrative power, the
intelligence behind these stories, is formidable' -- Los Angeles Times
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, Wildlife, A Multitude of Sins and most recently The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0747585253
- ISBN 13 9780747585251
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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