{"product_id":"9780802198594","title":"Rock Springs","description":"\u003cb\u003eTen “beautifully imagined and crafted stories” of the American West by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eIndependence Day\u003c\/i\u003e (Joyce Carol Oates).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In these ten exquisite stories, Richard Ford explores the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West and the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and girlfriend in a stolen Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; and two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the tradition of Raymond Carver, Rock Springs\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace. “The finest of these stories achieve luminous moments, moments with potential to change how the reader sees and thinks” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118481490160,"sku":"9780802198594","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802198594_p0.jpg?v=1763727879","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802198594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}