by Richard Ford · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747585251
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«Rock Springs» is Richard Ford's collection of ten stories, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Ten stories set in the American West follow ordinary people marked by loneliness and bad luck: a fugitive crossing Wyoming with his daughter, a boy watching his family fall apart, and strangers sharing their sorrows in a bar. Ford portrays them with sobriety and empathy.
This edition appeared on October 2, 2006; the work was originally published in 1987. Ford won the Pulitzer Prize for Independence Day.
For readers of literary fiction and short stories, with an interest in the American West and vulnerable characters.
Richard Ford is an American novelist and short story author and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.
