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title: "Rock Springs"
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# Rock Springs

**Brand:** richard ford
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## Customer Reviews

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    "The West is [screwed] up.  It's ruined.  I wish somebody would take me away from here."
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2012*

I recently read one of Richard Ford's short stories, "Winterkill", in an anthology of  contemporary "Western" short stories.  "Winterkill" was the best story in the anthology, so I tracked down this 1987 collection of Ford short stories from which it came.ROCK SPRINGS contains ten stories.  With the possible exception of one, all are set in the West, most in Montana.  They serve as an antidote for the popular, romantic image of the West as the realm of rugged and proud individualists who heroically forge lives of success and quiet dignity.  Instead, the characters in ROCK SPRINGS are merely hanging on, some pathetically, and most are whining about it.  Many are unemployed and/or sponging off their girlfriends who are working at airport bars.  Most come from failed marriages and are scarred veterans themselves of failed relationships.  Some are living outside the law (Deer Lodge Prison, Montana is mentioned in half the stories). The characters of ROCK SPRINGS don't heroically forge anything in their lives; instead, things happen to them.  And they want out.  As one says, "I don't know why people came out here.  The West is [screwed] up.  It's ruined.  I wish somebody would take me away from here."The stories are gritty, and they are realistic.  For the most part, they are not uplifting, though they aren't terribly depressing either.  There are some good lines.  (For example:  "I don't know what was between Edna and me, just beached by the same tides when you got down to it.")  In general, Ford's prose is straightforward and serviceable.  But the attraction of the book is more the stories than the prose.  I thought the blurb on the back of the book - calling ROCK SPRINGS "a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose" - a tad hyperbolic.As I said, it was having read "Winterkill" that prompted me to pick up and read ROCK SPRINGS.  It turns out that "Winterkill" is also one of the two best stories in ROCK SPRINGS - in part, perhaps, because it is one of the funniest and most cheerful, involving three middle-aged loners who seem to be relatively content with their lives of drinking, dancing, fishing, and casual sex (though one of the three is wheelchair-bound).  The other truly excellent story in the book is "Sweethearts", from which the title to this review was taken.

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    A bit too much downer for me
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2023*

A good writer but I guess what I needed at the time were more upbeat stories.

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    Bleak circumstances, well described
  

*by F***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2017*

I've read all the Richard Bascombe novels and so it is obvious that I like Richard's style. He , for me, has just the right touch when it comes to developing characters. He gives you a little at a time, just the way you get to know people in the real world. These stories are all good, although they are not happy ones. They are about people who are down on their luck, scratching out a living in and around Montana. Real people with very common problems. Divorce, infidelity, petty crimes and unemployment are featured in most, but there is a kind of optimism in some of them too. They are existential in the extreme-time moves on and little really matters.

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