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Rock Springs

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 that it feels like a kind of grace.

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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 that it feels like a kind of grace."@en
  • "Des histoires de chasse, de meurtre ou d'adultère, racontées par des gens simples qui s'efforcent de survivre, écrasés par les ciels sublimes de l'Ouest américain, en quête d'une impossible consolation."
  • "Set largely in Montana, these stories include a man looking back through time at his young mother, children caught up in adult confusion, and a woman whose ex-husband is about to go to jail."
  • "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."@en
  • "A collection of short stories about men, women and children who are facing hard times with optimism and humour."@en

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  • "Littérature américaine"
  • "Roman"
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  • "Roman américain"
  • "Short stories"@en
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  • "Short stories, American"@en

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  • "Rock springs : short stories"
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  • "Sai gou chang de nü ren"
  • "Rock Springs : Short Storys"
  • "Rock Springs Short stories"
  • "賽狗場的女人"
  • "Rock Springs : short stories"
  • "Rock Springs : Short Stories"
  • "Rock Springs : [nouvelles]"
  • "Sai gou chang de nu ren"
  • "Rock springs : stories"@en
  • "Rock springs : stories"
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  • "Rock springs"
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  • "Rock Springs : nouvelles"
  • "Rock springs stories"
  • "Rock Springs : stories"@en
  • "Rock Springs : stories"

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