Testing. I have not received any discussion emails for several hours. A circumstance which is pretty unusual! Just testing. Thanks. Rik -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rik James Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:10 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Wildlife TITLE: Wildlife AUTHOR: Richard Ford YEAR OF COPYRIGHT: 1990 GENRE: Fiction How Many Pages: 177 pp. SHORT DESCRIPTION: Set in the western landscape of Great Falls, Montana. Told by a young man, of his life with his mother and father. ?? an abiding sense of family and love, ? uncertainties and sorrows.? ISBN #: 0-87113-348-2 First edition LONGER DESCRIPTION: From the book jacket: Richard Ford's fourth novel is set in the same Western landscape that so distinguished his acclaimed collection Rock Springs, and with it he extends his reputation as "one of the most compelling and eloquent storytellers of his age... providing us with both the pleasures of narrative and the sad wisdom of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Joe Brinson was sixteen when his family moved to Great Falls, Montana, in 1960. Still young, his father and mother were following opportunity, much as they always had, with their deepest loyalties intact. Here, on the edge of the Great Plains, they were together, the three of them, hopeful and expectant. The story Joe tells, years later, is of what happened when suddenly their lives changed in ways neither he nor his parents ever could have anticipated. Looking back, what he sees is love and marriage; the promise of work and the emptiness of not working; loneliness and adultery; and the rampant forest fires that seemed to surround them all, and threatened to outlive them all. Wildlife is not, however, simply the story of a young man's coming of age. Instead it is about coming out into the world as it is and not as we had hoped, but as it resolutely is. With fierce honesty and epigrammatic brilliance, Wildlife examines the limits of how fully we can know one another, no matter how close the bonds of passion or blood. And with compassionate intensity Richard Ford offers an abiding sense of family and love, and how both can suffer and yet somehow withstand the gravest uncertainties and sorrows. Harrowing, transfixing, and affirming, this is his finest novel yet. Richard Ford is the author of three previous novels ? A-Piece of My Heart, The Ultimate Good Luck, and The Sportswriter ? as well as Rock Springs, a collection of stories. VOLUNTEER COMMENTS: This book of fiction was scanned using Kurzweil K-1000 version 10.05. Pages were normalized, headers removed, ranked spelling was run. Very few errors, and those detected were removed. Submitted in RTF, KES copy still available if desired. Contact me if needed at d28rik@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.