Rock Springs (short story collection)
1987 short story collection by Richard Ford / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rock Springs is the first collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987.
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Author | Richard Ford |
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Language | English |
Genre | short stories |
Published | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 235 (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 978-0871131591 (first edition) |
OCLC | 15548849 |
813.54 | |
LC Class | PS3556.O713 R6 |
Preceded by | The Sportswriter |
Followed by | Wildlife |
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As with his earlier novels A Piece of My Heart (1976) and The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), the stories from Ford's debut collection are notable for both their lack of sentimentality and undercurrent of menace.[lower-alpha 1] Raymond Carver selected Ford's short story "Communist" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1986.[1]
In retrospect, Rock Springs has become known as one of Ford's “Montana books,” along with Wildlife (1990), and Canada (2012), since the setting for most of the stories occurs in that state.[2]