Richard Ford (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Richard Ford was born in the Deep South, in the land of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and his first novel, A Piece of My Heart, is a work in the Southern gothic tradition. Ford has also written about other parts of America, paying particular attention, in the short stories in Rock Springs and in the short novel Wildfire, to the American West (especially Montana). In The...

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