Book description
20P>I> is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiselled
prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.<
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<
'Stunning ... one of the most compelling and
eloquent story tellers of his generation' New York Times 'A
collection of stunning impact which marks Ford's arrival at the
pinnacle of his craft' Sunday Times 'A marvellous book of short
stories ... Rock Springs confirms Ford's place among our finest
writers' The Times 'These are beautifully imagined and crafted
stories. By turns heart-rending and wickedly funny - and just plain
wicked. Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice -
and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism' Joyce Carol Oates
20P>I> is a masterpiece of taut narration,
cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like
a kind of grace.<
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<
