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Wildlife
A Literary Fiction Novel by Richard Ford
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Coming-of-Age,
- 1960s Montana
This book is for you if you're into...
- Montana family dramas set against wildfire season
- Stories told by adults reckoning with their teenage memories
- Quiet novels where small decisions upend everything
A novel of a fracturing family in 1960 Montana. When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana. But the new start didn't go quite as planned. Jerry Brinson is a golf pro to rich country club members, but then loses the job. In reaction, he joins a firefighting crew working in the mountains—as his wife becomes entangled in an affair with one of the businessmen from the club.
Told from the point of view of Joe as a grown man looking back on those days in 1960, Wildlife is a novel about love, family, and the forces that test them to the breaking point by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Canada and The Sportswriter.
The basis for a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, Wildlife is a wise, humane, and disarmingly simple novel of domestic distress.
"There is at the heart of this novel a deep nostalgia for that moment when a person recognizes a true perfection in the way things once were, before the onset of ruin and great change."—The New York Times Book Review
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