 Rock Springs (short story collection)

Rock Springs is a collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987 and largely dealing with dysfunctional mothers and fathers and their effects on young male narrators.As with his earlier novels "A Piece of My Heart" (1976) and "The Ultimate Good Luck" (1981), Ford's stories are notable for their lack of sentimentality and undercurrent of menace, characteristics that led "Granta" editor Bill Buford to include Ford in his 'Dirty realism' categorization alongside fellow short-story writer Raymond Carver.