Rick Bass, Author W. W. Norton & Company $16.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-393-02623-8
In muscular, masculine prose, Bass ( Wild to the Heart , The Deer Pasture ) bears witness to the remnants of the American outback in his tales about men, their buddies and their women in the swamps of Mississippi, the wilds of Utah and Montana, and...
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Rick Bass. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-547-68712-4
Bass turns the bleak and peculiar landscape of the Texas desert and the oil that lies beneath it into a vivid canvas for a slew of intense, sometimes hallucinatory narratives that always bring his characters back to the land. The author creates a...
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Rick Bass. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-05521-3
Novelist and memoirist Bass (Why I Came West) records his travels to Namibia to “witness... a ponderous beast out upon such a naked and seemingly unsupporting landscape.” At Damaraland, in the Namib Desert, Bass encounters activist Mike Hearn of the
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Rick Bass, Author Lyons Press $18.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-55821-697-6
Once again, Bass (The Ninemile Wolves) returns to the controversial theme of wolf reintroduction to weave a lyrical narrative along the boundaries of the nature essay, character portraiture and eco-philosophy. Relying on contemporary anecdotes and...
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Rick Bass, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (190p) ISBN 978-0-395-71758-5
""Spirit world, my butt,"" thinks one hard-bitten character in the first of these three splendid novellas, but it is exactly that--a spirit world--that Bass grasps in his tales of people in the Western wilderness. In the first, a mentally ailing...
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Rick Bass, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-395-71687-8
In this moving and self-assured collection of 10 stories (some of them linked, others not), Bass (Platte River) captures two very different regions of the country. A handful of the selections are set in an isolated Montana valley, a place inhabited...
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Rick Bass, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (145p) ISBN 978-0-395-68080-3
The characters in this impressive collection of three novellas are all outsized--in body, and in longing for the sanctuary and protection of love. Water is a unifying factor, a symbol of the free-flowing clarity and strength they aspire to achieve....
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Rick Bass, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.45 (172p) ISBN 978-0-395-48675-7
The young man invites his girlfriend to a picnic lunch: he takes her to the park, plugs his microwave oven into a lamp standard by the tennis courts, and provides her favorite sandwich. Bass, author of The Deer Pasture and award-winning short...
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Rick Bass, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-618-13932-3
Nature is as otherworldly as a line of bright birds frozen stiff, and as prosaic as a patch of grass, in this uniformly excellent collection. In the title story, a dog trainer and her companion, a man called Gray Owl, take six dogs out on a hunting...
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Rick Bass, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-92618-5
""How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden,"" writes novelist and essayist Bass (Where the Sea Used to Be, etc.) of the arrival of his ""goofy little...
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Rick Bass, Author Washington Square Press $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69222-3
Bass bears witness to the remnants of the American outback in his tales about men, their buddies and their women in the swamps of Mississippi, and the wilds of Utah, Montana and Texas. Some misfires here notwithstanding, ``he is a writer of great...
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Rick Bass, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-547-31726-7
In his grand return to fiction, Bass (Why I Came West) summons—with a lyrical style befitting his best nature writing—Arkansas and backwoods trio the Browns, the true-life country music trailblazers who pioneered the 1950s sound from which the novel
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Rick Bass, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26 (375p) ISBN 978-0-547-05516-9
Novelist and naturalist Bass (The Lives of Rocks
) gets up close and personal with local fauna, flora and folks in this account of the passing seasons in northwestern Montana’s Yaak Valley wilderness range, where he and his family—four...
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Rick Bass, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (238p) ISBN 978-0-618-59675-1
In the summer of 1987, nature writer Bass stumbled into the Yaak Valley in northwestern Montana and fell in love. A native of Houston, Bass worked as a geologist in Mississippi before heading west to find his home and his vocation as a writer. Over...
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Rick Bass, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (211p) ISBN 978-0-618-59674-4
Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection of 10 short stories as are any of the oddly off-center but otherwise endearing people who inhabit it. Bass writes with concern about the environment (Caribou Rising
), and that same passion...
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Rick Bass, Author . Houghton Mifflin $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-395-92617-8
In 1842, a militia arrives in LaGrange, a town in the newly formed Republic of Texas. Its purpose is to cross into Mexico and hunt down a band of Mexican nationals who recently attacked San Antonio. Sixteen-year-old James Alexander, overcome by a...
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Rick Bass, Author . Sierra Club $19.95 (164p) ISBN 978-1-57805-114-4
In this poetic cri de coeur, Bass (The Book of the Yaak
) turns his focus to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He visited there to join the Gwich-'in tribe in its annual hunt for the life-sustaining caribou—as the Bush administration...
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Rick Bass, Author, Elizabeth Hughes, Illustrator Mariner Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-53844-9
In journal-form entries, Bass relates oil to life--certain that neither will last forever; he reflects on his relationships with his family and his career. ``With the awareness and eye of a naturalist and a writer's gift with language, he offers a...
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Rick Bass, Author, Russell Chatham, Author, Russell Chatham, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-71759-2
Elk and black bear are abundant in Colorado's San Juan mountains. Does the grizzly still exist there? Since 1979, when a man was mauled by a grizzly, there have been a few unconfirmed sightings. With grizzly expert Doug Peacock and biologist Dennis...
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Rick Bass, Author, Elizabeth Hughes, Photographer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (162p) ISBN 978-0-395-51741-3
They were seeking a place to winter in the West, a secluded retreat where he could write and she could paint. Bass ( Oil Notes ) and his friend Elizabeth discovered the Yaak valley in northwest Montana. It was remote--with no electricity or phone...
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Rick Bass, Author, Elizabeth Hughes, Photographer Mariner Books $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-395-61150-0
Bass and his friend Elizabeth Hughes, a painter, spend a winter in a secluded former hunting lodge in northwest Montana's Yaak valley. ``This charming celebration will give readers a fresh perception of winter,'' said PW. Illustrated. (Jan.)
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Rick Bass, Author, Scott Slovic, Editor Milkweed Editions $12 (150p) ISBN 978-1-57131-224-2
In four essays, Bass (The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, etc.) ponders the relationship between literature and activism, organically fusing nature writing, environmentalism and the quest for meaning, leaping from the particular to the universal,...
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Rick Bass, Author, Scott Slovic, Editor Milkweed Editions $20 (150p) ISBN 978-1-57131-227-3
In four essays, Bass (The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, etc.) ponders the relationship between literature and activism, organically fusing nature writing, environmentalism and the quest for meaning, leaping from the particular to the universal,...
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Rick Bass, Author, Russell Chatham, Illustrator Clark City Press $22.95 (162p) ISBN 978-0-944439-47-0
In 1989, two wolves appeared in a valley in northwestern Montana--the first known pair to den outside Glacier National Park in 60 years. The rancher let them stay long enough for the pups to mature; a month later, after attacks on dogs and calves (pr
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Rick Bass. Little, Brown, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-38123-9
In this exuberant literary road trip, Bass (For a Little While) takes on the roll of a roving wordsmith caterer, traveling the country to visit the writers who have inspired him and thanking them by preparing them home-cooked meals: “The least I...
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