Wildlife
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Richard Ford’s novella is set in the same harshly beautiful Montana landscape as his earlier short story collection Rock Springs. Wildlife brings hard-boiled intensity to the lean, powerful coming-of-age story of teenager Joe Brinson. Joe’s unlucky father seems incapable of growing up and his mother is on the verge of abandoning ship. As horrific wildfires threaten the family’s small town, Ford’s young hero realizes that everything he’s known could be destroyed. Bleak, precise, and emotionally devastating without being melodramatic, Wildlife has been adapted into a movie with Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal.
