Rock Springs

Richard Ford

Bloomsbury Publishing, Oct 2, 2006 - Fiction - 256 pages

The stories in this collection are about ordinary women, men and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, they confront their fates with hard-won optimisms, humour and flashes of insight.

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User Review  - froxgirl - LibraryThing

Ten stories with one united theme: Montana is a horrible place to live. Each story demonstrates the follies of men and the subsequent responses of women and children. They are all written in the first ...

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User Review  - buffalogr - LibraryThing

Rock Springs: 10 tales about middlin' Americans in the West. Characters all discover good and evill, love and hate, success and failure. Stories are about simple and straightforward people, all ...

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rock Springs
• Author: Richard Ford
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006
• ISBN: 0747585253, 9780747585251
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language