Rock Springs
Richard Ford · 1987
Stories of men on the American margins. Ford writes about failure with the dignity it rarely receives.
The case against
Ten stories, one register: a man in Montana, low on luck, narrating his diminishment in the same flat, rueful voice. Read singly, they devastate; read straight through, they blur into a single story about geese, divorce, and a car that will not start. Ford's restraint is the achievement and the ceiling. Nobody in these pages gets to be funny.
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