Bibliographical Description
88.09.W054: Ford – Rock Springs: Stories
[across two page spread] ROCK | STORIES | RICHARD | FORD | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK | [at height of previous five lines] SPRINGS
128 leaves, pp. i-viii ix-x xi-xii 1-27 28 29-49 50 51-191 192 193-235 [9]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988
Contents: i blurbs, ii ‘OTHER BOOKS BY Richard Ford’, iii half-title, iv-v title-page spread, vi imprint, vii dedication ‘Kristina’, viii blank, ix-x table of contents, xi fly-title, xii blank, 1-235 Rock Springs: 1-27 ‘ROCK SPRINGS’, 28 blank, 29-49 ‘GREAT FALLS’, 50 blank, 51-68 ‘SWEETHEARTS’, 69-98 ‘CHILDREN’, 99-108 ‘GOING TO THE DOGS’, 109-148 ‘EMPIRE’, 149-170 ‘WINTERKILL’, 171-191 ‘OPTIMISTS’, 192 blank, 193-214 ‘FIREWORKS’, 215-235 ‘COMMUNIST’; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries list and order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form, χ4a- χ5b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Robert Crawford; display typography by Chip Kidd; exterior rear author photo by Lee Crum.
Copyright: © 1987. ISBN: 0-394-75700-9 / 9780394757001. Price: $6.95. Rock Springs was first published by The Atlantic Monthly Press 1987.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (two copies)
Blurbs
- (front cover) Stunning….This volume should confirm Ford’s emergence as one of the most compelling and eloquent storytellers of his generation. – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
- 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 Rock Springs is the very poetry of realism. – Joyce Carol Oates
- An enormously versatile writer, a perfect ventriloquist who achieves his end in voices that vary from swamp-deep to mirror flat….Rock Springs is cause for celebration. – Geoffrey Stokes, Village Voice Literary Supplement
- The most beautiful book of fiction I’ve read this year…The narrative power, the intelligence behind these stories, is formidable. – Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review
- Few writers have captured the inner emotional reflection of the great Western emptiness, the ringing of desire against outsized requirement as well…This is not just another book of fiction. This is literature. – Roy Pattishall, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- With a single collection Richard Ford has established himself as the leading short story writer in the United States today. – Alberto Manguel, Toronto Globe and Mail