Rock Springs by Ford, Richard - 1987

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Signed Edition. This copy has been signed, with an inscription on the title page, by the author. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "During 1982, the magazine was terminated, and when Sports Illustrated did not hire Ford, he resumed writing fiction, composing The Sportswriter, a novel about a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes an emotional crisis after the death of his son. The novel became Ford's first well-known publication, named one of Time magazine's five best books of 1986 and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Ford followed the success immediately with Rock Springs (1987) , a story collection mostly set in Montana, includes some of his most popular stories. Reviewers and literary critics associated the stories in Rock Springs with the aesthetic style known as "dirty realism". This term referred to a group of authors during the 1970s and 1980s that included Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff—- two writers with whom Ford was well acquainted—- along with Ann Beattie, Frederick Barthelme, Larry Brown, and Jayne Anne Phillips, among others. Those applying this label refer to Carver's lower-middle-class subjects or the protagonists Ford portrays in Rock Springs." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .