06-25-2023, 06:23 PM
epub | 1.77 MB | English | Isbn: B003CIQ57Y | Author: Richard Ford | Year: 2010
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Quote:A novel of a fracturing family in 1960 Montana, "full of prose that makes the reader shiver," by the New York Times -bestselling author of Rock Springs ( Chicago Sun-Times ).
When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana. But the new start didn't go quite as planned. Jerry Brinson is a golf pro to rich country club members, but then loses the job. In reaction, he joins a firefighting crew working in the mountains-as his wife becomes entangled in an affair with one of the businessmen from the club.
Told from the point of view of Joe as a grown man looking back on those days in 1960, Wildlife is a "heartbreaking and compelling" novel about love, family, and the forces that test them to the breaking point by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Canada and The Sportswriter ( Philadelphia Inquirer ).
The basis for a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Wildlife is "a wise, humane, and disarmingly simple novel of domestic distress" ( Entertainment Weekly).
"There is at the heart of this novel a deep nostalgia for that moment when a person recognizes a true perfection in the way things once were, before the onset of ruin and great change."- The New York Times Book Review
Category:Marriage & Divorce Fiction, Coming of Age Fiction, Contemporary Literary Fiction