{"product_id":"wildlife-by-richard-ford","title":"'Wildlife' by Richard Ford","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"28\" data-end=\"423\"\u003eSet largely in Great Falls, Montana, \u003cem data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"75\"\u003eWildlife\u003c\/em\u003e is narrated by sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson as he watches his parents’ marriage begin to come apart.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"28\" data-end=\"423\"\u003eHis father, restless and humiliated after losing his job, leaves to fight a wildfire near the Canadian border; his mother responds not with dutiful waiting but with a sudden, destabilising insistence on having a life beyond the family’s collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"425\" data-end=\"836\"\u003eJoe understands enough to be wounded, but not enough to intervene. Adults call their choices necessity, pride, love or survival; the child watching them sees only that the structures holding the world together are provisional and that parents are merely people who have been granted dangerous authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1118\"\u003eSpare, cold and exact, \u003cem data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"871\"\u003eWildlife\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about masculine failure, economic precarity and the moment a child becomes conscious of adult compromise. It is for readers drawn to restrained domestic fiction in which very little happens outwardly and almost everything is destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1322\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlamingo paperback, first printing of this edition, 1991. Light cover wear and marking; previous owner’s handwritten inscription inside. Pages otherwise clean and binding sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45860653269075,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-24T164432.405.png?v=1784875551","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/wildlife-by-richard-ford","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}