Volume 42, Number 13 · August 10, 1995
Reckless People
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Independence Day
by Richard Ford
Knopf, 451 pp., $24.00
From the stories in Richard Ford's collection Rock Springs (1987): 'This was not going to be a good day in Bobby's life, that was clear, because he was headed to jail. He had written several bad checks, and before he could be sentenced for that he had robbed a convenience store with a pistol—completely gone off his mind.' Bobby's ex-wife is giving him his last breakfast and the man she is now living with is telling the story, with some disgruntlement ('Sweethearts').
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