Optimists (1987) [Short Story]
by Richard Ford
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A man recalls a time when he was fifteen and his father, employed on the Great Northern Railway in Great Falls, Montana, arrived home shaken up after having witnessed a man run over by a train.
Originally published in The New Yorker, 30 March 1987.
Original title: Optimists
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Tragedy And Loss
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Art of the Story, the (1999) [Anthology]
Authors: Haruki Murakami
, Salman Rushdie
, Robert Olen Butler
, Richard Ford
, Steven Millhauser
, Martin Amis
, Margaret Atwood
, Banana Yoshimoto
, Sandra Cisneros
, Kazuo Ishiguro
, Joyce Carol Oates
, T.C. (Thomas Coraghessan) Boyle
, Eduardo Galeano
, Ian McEwan
, Tobias Wolff
, Junot Díaz
, James Kelman
, Edmund White
, Jim Crace
, Tatyana Tolstaya
, Angela Carter
, Julia Alvarez
, Raymond Carver
, Bobbie Ann Mason
, Edwidge Danticat
, Graham Swift
, Peter Hoeg
, Julian Barnes
, Rose Tremain
, Lorrie Moore
, Francine Prose
, Richard Bausch
, Victor Pelevin
, Bharati Mukherjee
, Hanif Kureishi
, Jeannette Winterson
, Peter Carey
, Torgny Lindgren
, Russell Banks
, Mohammed Mrabet
, Luisa Valenzuela
, Deborah Eisenberg
, Edward P. Jones
, John Edgar Wideman
, Lydia Davis
, Ingo Schulze
, Patricia Duncker
, Ben Okri
, Amos Oz
, Ama Ata Aidoo
, Hanah Al-Shaykh
, Reinaldo Arenas
, Toni Cade Bambara
, Nicola Barker
, Ann Beattie
, Patrick Chamoiseau
, Vikram Chandra
, Daniele del Giudice
, Duong Thu Huong
, Nathan Englander
, Victor Erofeyev
, Péter Esterházy
, Nuruddin Farah
, Hervé Guibert
, Abdulrazak Gurnah
, Barry Hannah
, Pawel Huelle
, Roy Jacobsen
, Colum McCann
, Mary Morris
, Murathan Mungan
, Ken Saro-Wiwa
, Antonio Tabucchi
, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
, Zoë Wicomb
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, Jeanne Wilmot
, Can Xue
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