Rock Springs

Name: Rock Springs
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ISBN: 9780802144577

ISBN-10: 0802144578

ISBN-13: 9780802144577

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Ford

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In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard 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 and an unhappy girlfriend in a stolen, cranberry-colored Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; and 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 chiseled prose, and empathy so generous…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1994 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize.