Rock Springs

Rock Springs is the first collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987. As with his earlier novels A Piece of My Heart (1976) and The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), the stories from Ford's debut collection are notable for both their lack of sentimentality and undercurrent of menace. Raymond Carver selected Ford's short story "Communist" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1986. In retrospect, Rock Springs is one of Ford’s “Montana books,” along with Wildlife (1990), and Canada (2012), since the setting for most of the stories occurs in that state. Contents The ten stories of Rock Springs appear in this sequence: "Rock Springs" "Great Falls" "Sweet Hearts" "Children" "Going to the Dogs" "Empire" "Winterkill" "Optimists" "Fireworks" "Communist"