# Rock Springs

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- Book: [Rock Springs](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ford/rock-springs) ([Rock Springs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ford/rock-springs.md))
- Authors: [R. S. Ford](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ford)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 978-07-4758-525-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2006-10-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.