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Rock Springs
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. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and children.
By the internationally renowned winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Published to coincide with Richard Ford's debut hardback for Bloomsbury, The Lay of the Land
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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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Rock Springs by Richard Ford is widely praised for its compelling storytelling and eloquent prose. It has been hailed as a showcase of Ford's mastery in short story writing, confirming his position among the finest writers. The collection is noted for its beautifully imagined and crafted narratives, marked by both heart-rending and wickedly funny elements, with Ford's lyric voice bringing a realism akin to poetry.
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ISBN: 9780747585251
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 October 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
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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