The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies.
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From the Back Cover:
"Powerful and haunting." — Boston Globe
"Full of prose that makes the reader shiver...a rich and readable story, a genuine narrative.... It leaves a sense of hope, a conviction that life is worth living." — Chicago Sun-Times
"One of his generation's most eloquent voices." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A Babe Ruth of novelists.... One of the finest curators of the great American living museum." — Washington Post Book World
About the Author:
The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0679734473
- ISBN 13 9780679734475
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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