Rock Springs is a highly regarded collection of 10 short stories by Pulitzer prize winning author Richard Ford

Richard Ford

Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early...

, published in 1987 dealing with dysfunctional mothers and fathers and their effect on a young male narrator. Several of Ford's leading characters can be viewed as losers or con artists."Rock Springs" is nowadays regarded as a seminal work , one of the greatest collections of short stories ever published , it has had tremendous influence on many writers since it appeared. It stands as one of the classic works in all of Fiction.

Contents

• "Rock Springs"
• "Great Falls"
• "Sweet Hearts"
• "Children"
• "Going to the Dogs"
• "Empire"
• "Winterkill"
• "Optimists"
• "Fireworks"
• "Communist"