Wildlife

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Summary: A simple, yet rich story.
Review: This is a rich, yet simple story. It records the breakup of a marriage as seen by the teenage son. The tone is such that I kept thinking of the old sepia family photographs so many of us have. Both mother and father are very decent people, love each other, and are compatible in most respects. The son is confused, and certainly not exceptional in any way, but he too is very decent. Ford takes his time in developing this story without ever being dull, and handles the ambiguities and ambivalence present in so many situations very well. As with much of Ford's writing, there are some sentences that I don't quite get, even after several re-reads. I admit it: I don't know why the title is Wildlife and not Wildfire, I obviously missed something.

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Summary: Wildlife
Review: This novel is about a sixteen year old boy named Joe. Him and his family have struggles. Joe and his family move to different places to find themselves the right place and the right jobs. They finally settle in Great Falls, Montana. They move to Great Falls because the father thinks it is a great idea and they can start new and fresh there and he can find a job. In first hand, they move to Great Falls because where they use to live, the father does not have luck with jobs and is not working. Him thinking that moving to Great Falls might bring him luck. At Great Falls Joes has not friends. He is really close with his parents, especially his father. His father is like his bestfriend.
Jerry, which is Joe's father, he is a really great athlete. He can play any sport. The best sport that he liked and was a pro at it was golf. Jerry was a pro golfer.He liked to play golf because others found golf difficult and he thought it was an easy sport. He liked to discuss the game. He was a very patient person and people enjoyed being around him.
At Great FAlls, where he thought he might have luck, at first he had a job at the air base and he touch golf at the clubs. Joes mother, which was Jerry's wife did not have a job at Great Falls. In Lweiston, she was a bookkeeper for a dairy company but in the other towns that they had lived in she was a subsitute teacher.While they were in Great Falls, the fires had began. Jerry had to leave to work for the fires for couple of days. While Jerry was gone, his wife had an affair with a man
named Warren Miller. When the husband comes back she tells him. They end up splitting up and Joe stay with his father. When Jerry hears about the affair, he sets a fire at Millers house. But Miller does not do anything. Jerry hopes that Miller will do something, well he asumes that he will do somthing bad to him since, everything at Great Falls has been negative. Also Jerry gets fired from the club because they think that he steals things.Than again Jerry finds a job, but he does not stay long at that job either. At the end he works at a sportting goods store.Joe's mother lived in a different town. Joe would get
letters but he would not know where she was and what she did. Than later on Miller dies from being ill. After that Jerry's wife comes back and they work their difficulties out and
they stay togather.
This was an interesing book. At first it was boaring than it got interesting.

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Summary: Moving, insightful. The best Richard Ford book of all.
Review: This thin book is chock-full of wisdom, real philosophy (definitely thought-provoking), and heartbreak. Ford writes in plain, simple sentences but don't be deceived. This is a rich, deep story that relentlessly peels away the layers of human existence one by one, slowly revealing the core of human emotions. Ford has an uncanny understanding of the emotional gulf that often separates men and women,

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Summary: Started with a twist ended good
Review: Wildlife by Richard Ford is a good to read, but it also has its twist in the begging of the story. It starts of bout a family of three that live in Great Falls, Montana. The father Jerry was a Professional golfer later leaves he's famil to volunteer as a fire fighter. While that was going on the mother, Jean, started to have an affair with a man name Warren Miller who knew her husband. The affair that Jean had with Warren Miller was convinced that she was in love with Warren Miller he didnt feel anything about her. Her, Son, Joe was involved in many situations of the affair that the mother had and he also couldn't mention anything to the father Jerry about the affair. One of Joe's intimate experienced was when him and his mother went to Warren Miller's house for dinner and she got drunk and she kissed Warren in front of Joe. Later his father came from voluteering as a fire fighter for two days. Jean approached him with the affair she was having with Warren Miller. Jerry went hysterical and went to Warren's house and burns the front porch down with Joe. Jean moved out to an apartment without Warren Miller because he died of cancer that year. Finally, Joe and his father stayed living in the house and worked together in a golf couse.

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Summary: This is a useful book for unmarried people.
Review: Wildlife by Richard Ford is about a family who moved to Great Falls, Montana. In Wildlife, there are three members in the family, the father is Jerry, the mother is Jean, and their son is Joe. Jean is an alcoholic and she is cheating on Jerry. Seven-teen year old Joe is caught in the middle of all the problems. I would recommend this book for others to read because it is a very interesting book, and it has many strengths, and weaknesses that I like.
The strengths of Wildlife are that it is fiction, but it seems to be a true story. It seems to be a true story because it explains what families really go through. It shows that everyone has marriage problems, financial problems and social problems. Even though some people are having affairs they still live with each other for the sake of their children.
The weaknesses of this book are that it has a great deal of depression. A lot of terrible things happen to the family, Jerry and Jean do not get along, because they do not love each other anymore, but they are still living together for the sake of Joe. I believe that Jean is the one that causes all these problems, because if she does not have an affair, or drink too much then they would all just get along. The thing that I do not like about this book is that it is too tragic, and I do not like it when families fight all the time.
I would recommend this book for others to read because it gives good advice to young people. It tells them not to make the same mistakes most people make in their family lives. I believe if you are going to love someone forever, and are planning on spending your entire life with them, you should be respectful, honest, truthful and trustworthy with each other. I believe that people that have experienced problems like the characters in Wildlife will enjoy this book because they can relate to it. I really enjoyed this book because it is very interesting.
Richard Ford has written Wildlife, which is about a family who has many problems. The wife has affairs, drinks too much and hates her husband. The husband works hard all day to support his family but, is not appreciated. The son is seven-teen and is caught in the middle of the problem. This is a really interesting book and I would recommend that everyone reads this.

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Summary: This is a useful book for unmarried people.
Review: Wildlife by Richard Ford is about a family who moved to Great Falls, Montana. In Wildlife, there are three members in the family, the father is Jerry, the mother is Jean, and their son is Joe. Jean is an alcoholic and she is cheating on Jerry. Seven-teen year old Joe is caught in the middle of all the problems. I would recommend this book for others to read because it is a very interesting book, and it has many strengths, and weaknesses that I like.
The strengths of Wildlife are that it is fiction, but it seems to be a true story. It seems to be a true story because it explains what families really go through. It shows that everyone has marriage problems, financial problems and social problems. Even though some people are having affairs they still live with each other for the sake of their children.
The weaknesses of this book are that it has a great deal of depression. A lot of terrible things happen to the family, Jerry and Jean do not get along, because they do not love each other anymore, but they are still living together for the sake of Joe. I believe that Jean is the one that causes all these problems, because if she does not have an affair, or drink too much then they would all just get along. The thing that I do not like about this book is that it is too tragic, and I do not like it when families fight all the time.
I would recommend this book for others to read because it gives good advice to young people. It tells them not to make the same mistakes most people make in their family lives. I believe if you are going to love someone forever, and are planning on spending your entire life with them, you should be respectful, honest, truthful and trustworthy with each other. I believe that people that have experienced problems like the characters in Wildlife will enjoy this book because they can relate to it. I really enjoyed this book because it is very interesting.
Richard Ford has written Wildlife, which is about a family who has many problems. The wife has affairs, drinks too much and hates her husband. The husband works hard all day to support his family but, is not appreciated. The son is seven-teen and is caught in the middle of the problem. This is a really interesting book and I would recommend that everyone reads this.

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Summary: another ford masterpiece
Review: written in his classic, tranquil style, richard ford delivers yet another brilliant work on the trials of american family life. through his clear and simple prose and in-depth developement of characters, ford has spawned a fine tale that almost anyone can relate to. a novel affirming the importance of resilience and understading.