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The stories in this celebrated 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 optimism, humour and flashes of insight.
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'Richard Ford writes intense and immediate prose that glows with a mysterious light, like a candle shining through the walls of a hollow pumpkin’ -- Jeremy Brooks, Independent
‘Richard Ford is a born storyteller with and inimitable lyric voice – and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism’ -- Joyce Carol Oates
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‘Richard Ford is a born storyteller with and inimitable lyric voice – and Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism’ -- Joyce Carol Oates
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories. His novel, Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, two weeks later, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, the first time the same book has won both prizes.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0099448971
- ISBN 13 9780099448976
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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