Rocky Ford Stories

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408835096
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Springs written by Richard Ford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. A refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter; an unhappy girlfriend and a stolen Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.

Author : Dianna Knox Schneider
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452554897
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocky Ford Stories written by Dianna Knox Schneider and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story, Sassy is having trouble going to sleep. Her brother, Slither, can sleep; her best friend, Freshie, loves to rest; and her friends, Torch and Turbo, never seem to be grouchy or tired. Sassy asks for their ideas and makes herself a list that will become her new bedtime habit. She learns to enjoy going to bed and how to relax and fall asleep.

Author : David J. Muth
Publisher : Iron Gate Publishing (Company)
ISBN 13 : 9781682240250
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocky Ford, Colorado, a Walk Past Local Doors written by David J. Muth and published by Iron Gate Publishing (Company). This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone with a connection to Rocky Ford, Colorado will enjoy over 500 historical and modern photographs collected from the public library, museum, other archives and private collectors by author and former resident David J. Muth. His fondness for the community stems from his childhood spent in the Arkansas Valley. Explore Rocky Ford, Colorado from the earliest plat around the time Colorado became a state in 1876 through the days when the melons were harvested and brought to town in horse-drawn wagons for annual Watermelon Days, a festival tradition that is carried on today. Author David Muth has created a fantastic photographic collection of local homes and businesses--a trip down memory lane for long-time residents, and for the younger generation, a chance to explore the Rocky Ford that beloved parents and grandparents once knew.

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062969811
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sorry for Your Trouble written by Richard Ford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving Up” follows an American woman’s late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life. “The Run of Yourself,” a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife’s death. And “Nothing to Declare” follows a man and a woman’s chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what’s left of love for them. Typically rich with Ford’s emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062661906
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Them written by Richard Ford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental love How is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman—were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944. For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents’ lives found their greatest satisfaction. Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapes—our parents’ lives—the award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.

Author : Byron Oberst M.D. FAAP
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490766162
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocky Ford’S Adventures in the Old West written by Byron Oberst M.D. FAAP and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tale of a young chap who was raised by the Lakota Sioux. He was imbued with gifts few persons possessed. He grew and developed into an outstanding man who was fearless. He worked various jobs from being a ranch hand where he encountered a prairie fire, rustlers, a cattle drive, a stampede, hostile cattle robbers, and hostile Indians. He was able to rescue his future sweetheart from nefarious villains concerning terrible fates not once but twice. He encountered gold robbers, a crooked gambler, and aided in subduing a large gang of outlaws bent on terrorizing the defenseless settlers. He joined the Texas Rangers where his adventures placed him in many precarious situations including a range war and confronting a crooked and ruthless sheriff. He was almost killed in a planned ambush. His life was saved in an unorthodox manner by his future bride.

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307363724
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildlife written by Richard Ford and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Falls, Montana, is where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies.

Author : Larry Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Rocky Ford Community, 1818-1952 written by Larry Brown and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains: Roads and homesteads, first settlers, settlers after the Civil War, making a living: farming, sawmills, blacksmiths, general store, gristmill, molasses mill, post office at Sitzville, tar gum wells, woodman of the world hall, doctors, folk medicine; social life, churches and schools, rockford school teachers, changing time.

Author : Lita Ford
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062270664
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Like a Runaway written by Lita Ford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fearless, revealing, and compulsively readable, Lita Ford’s Living Like a Runaway is the long-awaited memoir from one of rock’s greatest pioneers—and fiercest survivors. “Heavy metal’s leading female rocker" (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs and lows of her trailblazing career. Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darkness—until rock and roll repaid the debt it owed this pioneer, helped Lita reclaim her soul, and restored the Queen of Metal to her throne. In 1975, Lita Ford left home at age sixteen to join the world’s first major all-female rock group, the Runaways—a “pioneering band” (New York Times) that became the subject of a Hollywood movie starring Kristen Stewart ad Dakota Fanning. Lita went on to become “heavy rock’s first female guitar hero” (Washington Post), a platinum-selling solo star who shared the bill with the Ramones, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, and others and who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top 10 hit. She was a bare-ass, leather-clad babe whose hair was bigger and whose guitar licks were hotter than any of the guys’. Hailed by Elle as “one of the greatest female electric guitar players to ever pick up the instrument,” Lita spurred the meteoric rise of Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, and the rest of the Runaways. Her phenomenal talent on the fret board also carried her to tremendous individual success after the group’s 1979 disbandment, when she established herself as a “legendary metal icon” (Guitar World) and a fixture of the 1980s music scene who held her own after hours with Nikki Sixx, Jon Bon Jovi, Eddie Van Halen, Tommy Lee, Motorhead’s Lemmy, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi (to whom she was engaged), and others. Featuring a foreword by Dee Snider, Living Like a Runaway also provides never-before-told details of Lita’s dramatic personal story. For Lita, life as a woman in the male-dominated rock scene was never easy, a constant battle with the music establishment. But then, at a low point in her career, came a tumultuous marriage that left her feeling trapped, isolated from the rock-and-roll scene for more than a decade, and—most tragically—alienated from her two sons. And yet, after a dramatic and emotional personal odyssey, Lita picked up her guitar and stormed back to the stage. As Guitar Player hailed in 2014 when they inducted her into their hall of fame of guitar greats: “She is as badass as ever.”

Author : Blake Allmendinger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803256655
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Melon Capital of the World written by Blake Allmendinger and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown’s decline. Allmendinger’s family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became depressed while living in Rocky Ford as a young woman. For the rest of her life she abused the members of her family, creating tensions that remained unresolved until the end of the author’s visit, when his mother died suddenly, a family member committed suicide, and a secret diary was discovered. The Melon Capital of the World is a remarkable blend of personal narrative, memoir, and Allmendinger’s interviews with people who knew his mother and her family. His story is a gritty but compassionate, and at times humorous, portrait of a family trying to survive in the rapidly disappearing rural American West.