Rock Springs
Author: Richard Ford
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. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace…..Read More
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