Winter: Notes From Montana - Hardcover

Rick Bass

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395517419 ISBN 13: 9780395517413

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1991

Synopsis

The author describes the wild beauty as well as the physical and psychological hardships involved in spending a winter in a remote Montana valley of thirty inhabitants, the last valley in the state without electricity

About this title

About the Author:

RICK BASS is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his 2002 collection, The Hermit's Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. The Lives of Rocks was a finalist for the Story Prize and was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News. Bass's stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short Stories.

From Library Journal:

In this journal of a back-country winter, Bass is working in the tradition of Walden. Wishing to confront the essentials of nature and self, he heads for the most remote place he can find--the Yaak valley of Montana, with its 30 inhabitants and lack of electricity. The journal focuses on his adaptation to the harsh climate, stressing his growing knowledge of backwoods skills and lore. Unfortunately, Bass rarely goes beyond recording daily tasks and encounters. He conveys little insight into the spiritual changes he is undergoing and has surprisingly little to say about the relation of man and nature. His writing has been compared to that of Annie Dillard and Peter Matthiessen, but these flat, sketchy accounts belie such comparisons. In the end, "notes" is an all-too-appropriate subtitle for this disappointing volume, which often seems like the skeleton of a more substantial work.
-Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0395517419
• ISBN 13: 9780395517413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162
• Illustrator: Elizabeth Hughes