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  <default_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. &lt;b&gt;Rock Springs&lt;/b&gt; is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny; and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice, and &lt;b&gt;Rock Springs&lt;/b&gt; is the very poetry of realism.&quot;--Joyce Carol Oates</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ford is the Russel Banks of Montana and Colorado.  His spare writing, like Banks's focuses on working class drifters, the rootless, the desperate, average and white people he grew up with.  He's sort of a stalwart of the 30s &quot;show don't tell&quot; thing, the logical conclusion to Hemingway's na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59232545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[too American, too male, too middle aged for me to really really get, but I'm sure there was something good going on here<br/>plus, I learnt what the term 'gash-hound' means (had never heard that one before...)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know why it's taken me so long to read Richard Ford.  He was influenced by one of my favorite writers (Richard Yates) and spent significant time hanging out with two of my other favorites (Tobias Wolff and Raymond Carver.)  The time those three have spent together really shows.  They all hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72244909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been looking forward to reading this book for years because of all the people who have recommended it to me. There are many stories in this genre and general style that I love, but I just couldn't get the magic here. No one can argue it is good clean writing , I just didn't feel the cumulative ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40872077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm re-reading this one, having felt its impact some years before.  Or should I say I'm reading &quot;the optimists&quot; over and over again.  I've rearely seen a story whose strengths lie so heavily in the denouement,the repercussions of the climax outweighing the actual event without rally being ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51501498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Ford's short stories, because they are short stories, lack the almost overwhelming power and depth of his great novels, <em>The Sportswriter</em> and <em>Independence Day</em>. But as short stories, they are no less masterfully crafted and lyrical. Of the huge glut of American writers and their publications, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21230565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I read this collection I enjoy it more than the last and become even more impressed with Ford’s ability to get so deep without seeming to. His beginnings are subtle, and his endings crackle with meaning. The middle of his stories oscillate between quiet moments that explode like depth c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19483038">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[my roommate told me to read this book after hearing about rebecca brown.  so i was raring up for some really bleak depressing fiction (not that there's anything wrong with that).  and that's what i thought i was getting, that really incredibly  depressing and scary midwestern landscape of nothing bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9093578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Up until reading this 1987 book of short stories, I had been familiar with Richard Ford only from his novel &quot;The Sportswriter,&quot; which I read many years ago. These 10 stories take place in western Montana in and around Great Falls and involve characters just scraping by and often in trouble...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72930195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Resonated with me because I have lived in Montana.  The stories were uneven and the motivations of the characters' motivations sometimes ill-defined.  the dialogue is vintage Ford, but everything else seems like a writer just finding his voice.  This collection is worth reading if you're a fan of Fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45416357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This is a good place to begin reading Richard's books.   The settings are in Wyoming and Montana.  For awhile he lived in Missoula.  Not cheerful or inspiring or anything like that, rather an astutely realistic characterization of several individuals and their dilemmas.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose the book based on the first couple pages of the first short story and to be honest I thought the stories were going to be a lot more engaging than they were. Most are poignant, sad looks at &quot;heartland&quot; Americana, but perhaps there wasn't enough time in these vignettes to empathize ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60892788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First published in the late 80s, these stories are well worth revisiting.  Ford may be our best American short story writer.  Get the book just to read &quot;Sweethearts&quot; one more time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent collection of short stories set mostly in the state of Montana and centered around working class people in small towns. Well-written and emotionally affecting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i can read these stories over and over and over again.  i've never read anything else of his but if it's anywhere near this great, i probably should.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who wants to learn how to write fiction should read these stories]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just got this in first and signed. Very happy about that!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Condition: like new<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant book.  Wow.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[sooooo good.  ]]></body>
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