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Klappentext 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. "Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny, and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism." -- Joyce Carol Oates Zusammenfassung 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.
