Rock Springs is the first collection of short stories by author Richard Ford, published in 1987.
As with his earlier novels A Piece of My Heart (1976) and The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), the stories from Ford's debut collection are notable for both their lack of sentimentality and undercurrent of menace.[a] Raymond Carver selected Ford's short story "Communist" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1986.[1]
In retrospect, Rock Springs has become known as one of Ford's “Montana books,” along with Wildlife (1990), and Canada (2012), since the setting for most of the stories occurs in that state.[2]
