Rock Springs (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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Rock Springs is a collection of stories Ford wrote during the 1980's. There are no heroes in the traditional sense in these short works, nor are there villains. Some readers might be inclined to label the characters “victims,” for certainly the environment and the influence of other people determine the characters’ actions, often for the worse. Yet Ford should not be confused with the naturalistic authors of the early 1900's who portrayed hapless human specimens under a microscope.

Though the situations in which characters find themselves seem, for the most part,...

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