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Published the year after the breakout success of The Sportswriter, Rock Springs marked a major moment in Richard Ford’s early career and firmly established him as one of the leading American fiction writers of his generation. The collection gathers ten stories set largely in the American West and rural South, exploring lives lived on the margins—characters navigating economic hardship, fractured families, and the uneasy promise of mobility.
Several of the stories originally appeared in magazines such as Esquire, The New Yorker, and Granta, and together they showcase Ford’s ability to reveal what reviewers often called “the deep peril of things” beneath ordinary American lives. The title story, along with standouts like “Great Falls” and “Sweethearts,” helped shape the literary landscape that would later lead to Ford’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Bascombe novels. This copy carries an appealing association inscription to Michael Loney, a poet and writer long connected to the Tempe literary community.
A sharp signed first printing with a meaningful inscription.
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