Wildlife - richard ford

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal Full of prose that makes the reader shiver, Wildlife is 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 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.