Wildlife [Paperback]

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Full of prose that makes the reader shiver,Wildlifeis a rich and readable story...It leaves a sense of hope, a conviction that life is worth living. Chicago Sun-Times

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 ofRock Springs. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point,Wildlifefirst published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1990 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperbackis a book whose spare poetry and expansive vision established it as an American classic.

A stylistic grace that goes to the heart of its subject . . . shrewdly focused . . . powerful and haunting.The Boston Globe

This intense work confirms Richard Ford as one of the most formidable writers of his generation.The Baltimore Sun

Shot through with nuance and minute observation . . . It may even assume the weight of myth.The New York Times Book Review

Richard Ford is one of the best writers andWildlifeis his best novel. . . . This is, in all likelihood, the finest novel of coming of age sinceThe Catcher in the Rye.The Star-Ledger