Rock Springs

richard ford

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. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.

Genres short storiesfictionliteratureliterary fictionamericanwesternscontemporaryamericanathe united states of america20th century

245 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1987

This edition

Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2003 by Vintage
ISBN: 9780099448976
ASIN: 0099448971
Language: English

About the author

richard ford

Richard Ford, born February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Comparisons have been drawn between Ford's work and the writings of John Updike, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Walker Percy.

His novel Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996, also winning the PEN/Faulkner Award in the same year.