Wildlife
by Richard Ford
List Price:
Our Price: $3.92
You Save: $11.03 (74%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.28 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Richard FordEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2010-01-26
ISBN: 0802144594
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Grove Press
Book Reviews of Wildlife
Book Review: Spare, intense, difficult
Summary: 3 Stars
Richard Ford is a gifted author and I tread carefully on these pages that are publicly viewable and contribute the bottom line of artists and master craftsmen. I should be so lucky as to re-read his works, possibly have time to re-consider this one which just didn't work for me. In the past I've deleted negative reviews I've written and may well do the same here, although this one isn't negative, it's tentative.
Having read this book a couple of months ago and thought about it, I have a hard time recommending it fully to new readers as his best writing. However if you are a fan, go for it. "Wildlife" is a stylistic departure from "The Sportswriter" which is a good thing: artists who re-invent endure. There are Joycean epiphanies, or I should say Fordian epiphanies in "Wildlife" and profound moments. The "cubist" fragmentation did not draw me in emotionally as his other writing has. The work is spare and modernist in the sense that it's first-person and reductive - no excessive modifiers or effusive prose - just the bare facts, dialogue, and symbols at times abstruse or difficult to decipher. The brevity of the novella is deceiving - there's a lot more there that's unsaid - too much.
Summary of Wildlife
Seen through the eyes of a 16 year-old boy, this is the story of a family drawn west by dreams of oil boom prosperity only to find themselves on the margins of society, confronting the loss of work and the dissolution of the family. By the author of "A Piece of My Heart".Genre Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Genre Fiction Books
Children of the Stormby Elizabeth Peters
WmMorrow; Published: 2003-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
Innocenceby Kathleen Tessaro
William Morrow Paperbacks; Published: 2006-05-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.01
Price in other shops:
Little Altars Everywhere: A Novelby Rebecca Wells
HarperTorch; Published: 2003-02-25; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.99
Price in other shops:
Breakheart Passby Alistair Maclean
Harpercollinspublishers; Published: 1994-05-01; Paperback; Book
Here Be Dragonsby Sharon Kay Penman
Holt, Rinhart and Winston; Published: 1985-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $356.38
The Killing Groundby JACK HIGGINS
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LTD; Published: 2007; Hardcover; Book
Life Expectancyby Dean Koontz
Harpercollins Pb; Published: 2005-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.00
Constant Princessby Philippa Gregory
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster; Published: 2005; Hardcover; Book
Wolf of the Plains (Conqueror, Book 1)by Conn Iggulden
Harper; Published: 2007; Paperback; Book
Saharaby Clive Cussler
Harper Collins Pb; Published: 2005-03-21; Paperback; Book
Similar Books and other products
The Book of Yaakby Rick Bass
Mariner Books; Published: 1997-09-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.75
Price in other shops:
The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)by Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 1995-06-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.25
Price in other shops:
Women with Men : Three Storiesby Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 1998-04-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.95
Price in other shops:
A Multitude of Sinsby Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 2003-02-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.70
Price in other shops:
A Piece of My Heartby Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 1985-05-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
The Ultimate Good Luckby Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 1987-05-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.75
Price in other shops:
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Workby Richard Ford
Harper Perennial; Published: 2011-04-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.87
Price in other shops:
The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3) (Vintage Contemporaries)by Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 2007-07-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.30
Price in other shops:
Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2)by Richard Ford
Vintage; Published: 1996-05-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.99
Price in other shops:
Rock Springsby Richard Ford
Grove Press; Published: 2009-10-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.46
Price in other shops: