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Rick Bass - The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness
 

Rick Bass - The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

A woman returns to live on her family's west Texas ranch . . . a man tracks his wife through a winter wilderness . . . an ancient ocean buried in the foothills of the Appalachians becomes a battleground for a young wildcat oilman and his aging mentor--these three short novels reveal Bass at his magical, passionate, lyrical best.

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Rick Bass Gets Back to Nature

byGrouch Apr 5, 2000
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Pros Bass' love for the land is like the howl of a wolf under a star-spangled sky...
Cons Bass' passion for environmental activism sometimes results in stilted language that...
Recommended it? Yes

Man and earth merge, literally, in the pages of Rick Bass? collection of three novellas, The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness. Bass, who divides his time between fiction and non-fiction nature essays, has always been concerned about man?s impact on the wilderness. A former petroleum geologist (of... Read full review »

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Key Information

Authors Rick Bass
Fiction Genre Nature • Philosophy

Professional Reviews

New York Times Book Review: "Varied in their settings and characters, unified in their mood and central concerns, [these novellas] offer an unsentimental but ecstatic portrayal of the physical world."

Book Editions

Paperback192September 30, 1998Houghton Mifflin9.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.5 lbs.9780395924754
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