06-25-2023, 06:21 PM
epub | 2.08 MB | English | Isbn: B003CIQ57O | Author: Richard Ford | Year: 2010
Description:
Quote:Ten "beautifully imagined and crafted stories" of the American West by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day (Joyce Carol Oates).
In these ten exquisite stories, Richard Ford explores the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West and the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and girlfriend in a stolen 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.
In the tradition of Raymond Carver, Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace. "The finest of these stories achieve luminous moments, moments with potential to change how the reader sees and thinks" ( The New York Times Book Review ).
Category:Psychological Literary Fiction, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Contemporary Literary Fiction