Rick Bass
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Selected stories. Wild horses ; In Ruth's Country ; Redfish ; Watch ; Legend of Pig-Eye ; History of Rodney ; Fires ; Field events ; Hermit's story ; Fireman ; Swans ; Elk ; Pagans ; Canoeists ; Goats ; Her first elk ; Titan ; Lives of rocks -- New stories. How she remembers ; Blue tree ; Lease hound ; River in winter ; Coach ; Alcoholic's guide to Peru and Chile ; Fish story.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Presents a detailed account of a year at Montana's Yaak Valley, where the author and his family were surrounded by a natural world marked by such regional elements as huckleberries, grizzly bears, and an extensive winter.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A poignant look at the thirty-year journey of one of our country's great naturalist writers, Why I Came West explores how Rick Bass fell in love with the mystique of the West (and the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana in particular) as a dramatic landscape, as an idea, and as a way of life. In a series of moving chapters, Bass describes his own transformation into the writer, hunter, and environmental activist that he is today. He profiles how the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A transformative journey written in gratitude to the author's mentors describes his midlife attempt to recapture the passions of his youth, an effort marked by encounters with famous contemporaries and a variety of colorful mishaps.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of short fiction includes the title story about a woman's recovery from cancer, as well as "Pagans, " a retrospective about the dangerous games played by a girl and two boys in their youth, and "Her First Elk, " in which a woman recalls her first elk hunt.
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--