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Rock Springs | Richard Ford

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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 | Richard Ford

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A very easy read. All the stories fit and read well together w/o being connected. Sometimes that's hard. A well ordered and sequenced short story collection, IMO, can often read as well as the best novels. 2 stories reminded me a bit of R. Carver. They share a similar aesthetic and sensibility.

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Rock Springs | Richard Ford

... some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life when it is pure and plain, makes our existence seem like a border between two nothings, and makes us no more or less than animals who meet on the road - watchful, unforgiving, without patience or desire.

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