Platte River - Hardcover
Three arresting, thought-provoking novellas--"Mahatma Joe," "Field Events," and "Platte River"--explore the relationship of humankind with the natural world and the struggles of the human heart in the context of nature and its wonders. 12,500 first printing.
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"This collection shines...You get the feeling you're seeing how Rick Bass dreams."-- New York Newsday
"Marvelous...The title story is stunning...It's the best single piece Bass has written to date."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Powerful...(Rick Bass) reminds me of D. H. Lawrence, who also relied on the power of his own voice to mesmerize the reader...Lyrical, vivid, engaging."-- USA Today
"Stunning...(A) compassionate exploration of what learning to love feels like, smells like and sounds like...Spellbinding articulate."-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Mythical...Bass creates a clear and luminous world where legends are still told."-- The Christian Science Monitor
"Bass has written some of the finest short stories in the land: terse, haunting, often near-mystical tales that have brought comparisons to Hemingway and the late Raymond Carver."-- The Oregonian
"Beautifully Written and filled with radiant imagery and a powerful sense of the mysteries of nature."-- Kirkus Reviews
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"Marvelous...The title story is stunning...It's the best single piece Bass has written to date."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Powerful...(Rick Bass) reminds me of D. H. Lawrence, who also relied on the power of his own voice to mesmerize the reader...Lyrical, vivid, engaging."-- USA Today
"Stunning...(A) compassionate exploration of what learning to love feels like, smells like and sounds like...Spellbinding articulate."-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Mythical...Bass creates a clear and luminous world where legends are still told."-- The Christian Science Monitor
"Bass has written some of the finest short stories in the land: terse, haunting, often near-mystical tales that have brought comparisons to Hemingway and the late Raymond Carver."-- The Oregonian
"Beautifully Written and filled with radiant imagery and a powerful sense of the mysteries of nature."-- Kirkus Reviews
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.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0395680808
- ISBN 13 9780395680803
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages145
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