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Wildlife

by Richard Ford · 1990

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When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing, transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of Rock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife—first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback—is a book whose spare poetry and expansive vision established it as an American classic.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of thiswesternwesternMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisMontanaMontanaMore like thisLess of thisAmerican WestAmerican WestMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 177 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of thispoetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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