A collection of three novellas, each a singular exploration of the human heart against the backdrop of God's creation, this astonishing work charges headlong past the hard surface of modern life to illuminate man and his relationship with the modern world. Bass is the prize-winning author of Winter: Notes from Montana.
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A collection of three novellas, each a singular exploration of the human heart against the backdrop of God's creation, this astonishing work charges headlong past the hard surface of modern life to illuminate man and his relationship with the modern world. Bass is the prize-winning author of Winter: Notes from Montana.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x9; Full number line. Hardbound book with normal shelfwear to either end of spine, otherwise clean and crisp throughout.
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Fine in NF jacket. Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Hardcover with stamped grey-green paper over boards and quarter-cloth, in illustrated dark grey-green jacket, 8vo. 1st edition/printing (number line). 145pp. Fine/NF. Boo has mild foxing just beginning to page edges, very slightly stronger on upper edges. Jacket has mild clouding to dark background, primarily over binding edges; mild curl along upper front edge. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 9x6x0; Rick Bass is one of the foremost writers of his generation. His astonishing work charges headlong past the hard surface of modern life to illuminate man and his relationship to the natural world. Platte River is a collection of three novellas, each a singular exploration of the human heart set against the backdrop of God's creation. Filled with arresting images-chinook winds flying through a valley, couples skating in the dark on thin ice, tools made from animal bones, a delicate shape frozen in a river-"Mahatma Joe" is about an evangelist who settles in Grass Valley, Montana, and the woman who grows obsessed with his vision of the world. In "Field Events", a woman falls in love with a man even more enormous than her discus-tossing brothers. And the title novella, "Platte River", portrays one man's lyric meditation on loneliness, the nature of peace, and his quest for love. Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist. Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of a geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes, to the remote Yaak Valley near Troy, Montana, where he worked to protect his adopted home from roads and logging. Rick has served on the board of the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies. He was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007 for his short story collection The Lives of Rocks. He was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award (autobiography) for Why I Came West (2008).
