Rick Bass

Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'A rallying cry against our modern, urban existence... a celebration of being wild' THE TIMES'A rich collection of stories by a major American writer' ANNIE PROULXRick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. To read his fiction is to feel more alive, and to be captivated by his expression of the vastness of human experience, and the awesome beauty of the natural world. The men and women in these stories live with intensity and tenderness, struggling against their fate at the moment of recognition. The stories collected here - brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery - have the power both to devastate and uplift.

Rick Bass a quitté sa vallée sauvage du Montana afin de rendre visite à ses mentors, disséminés à travers les États-Unis et l’Europe, pour leur cuisiner un repas raffiné, en guise de remerciement, ca

Des rapaces parcourent le ciel, des chiens gambadent et des couguars se tapissent parmi les arbres. Les plaines sont balayées par les vents, les forêts sont lugubres ou enchanteresses et quand il ne

Rick Bass présente l’originalité d’être un chasseur passionné et un écologiste convaincu. Tout petit déjà, il collectionnait de la terre, du sable, des cailloux que les amis de la famille lui rapport

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A literary titan...Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions." -- New York Times Book Review Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic." To read his fiction is to feel more alive -- connected, incandescently, to "the brief longshot of having been chosen for the human experience," as one of his characters puts it.These pages reveal men and women living with passion and tenderness at the outer limits of the senses, each attempting to triumph against fate. Bass provides searing insights into the complexity of family and romantic entanglements, and his lush and striking language draws us ineluctably into the lives of these engaging people and their vivid surroundings. The intricate stories collected in For A Little While -- brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery -- have the power both to devastate and to uplift. Together they showcase an iconic American master at his peak

Une femme sublime à la pâleur surnaturelle, un chasseur de trésor unijambiste, un éléphant de cirque en cavale, un poisson-chat gigantesque, des chercheurs de pétrole tenaces : telles sont quelques-u

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The definitive collection of a great American writers stories. Published in the UK for the first timeRick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Collected here for the first time is the definitive volume of his stories, selected from thirty years of work, which will confirm his reputation as one of the most astonishing American writers today.To read his fiction is to feel more alive, and to be captivated by his expression of the vastness of human experience and the awesome beauty of the natural world. The men and women in these stories live with intensity and tenderness, struggling against their fate at the moment of recognition. Rick Basss sentences resonate with lush and exquisite language and his writing can both shock and astonish.The stories collected in For a Little While - brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery - have the power both to devastate and uplift.Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montanas Yaak Valley for almost thirty years. His short fiction, which has appeared on the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ and the Paris Review, as well as numerous times in The Best American Short Stories, has earned him multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. He is the writer in residence at Montana State University.

Suit up with celebrated literary master Rick Bass as he writes, ala Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights) and George Plimpton (Paper Lions), through the prism of battered semi-professional football and the refractions it casts on matters of race, masculinity, and yes, faith.The Montana writer Norman Maclean wrote, In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. Rick Bass, born and raised in Houston, knows that in Texas, theres no clear line between religion and football.In Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God, and Football,award-winning writer Rick Bass chronicles three seasons on the field with the Texas Express, a semiprofessional team in the Dynamic Texas Football Association. This is unsung football. Light-years from the NFL, it has nowhere near the pomp of college football nor even of Texas high-school football, where hometown fans civic identity is always on the line. In the hardscrabble world of spring-season semipro ball, there are no fans. Eventually even the players families avoid these games. Most players are in their twenties, but some are older. Every year a few get to try out for the college game; others get scholarship money and a shot at another life. But for most, this is their last chance. Manymostget hurt.One hundred and fifty-five pounds dripping wet and forty-five years past his playing career as a one-season walk-on at Utah State, Rick Bass came to Brenham, a flyspeck town outside of Houston, to write about the Express. But with a disastrous season unfolding and injuries, incarcerations, and plain boredom claiming players every week, Bass was induced to suit up and take the field. Suddenly the writer became part of the story in a tale reminiscent of George Plimpton and Paper Lion. Ricks experience on and off the field and his observations about the game, the terrible injuries, the expectations and pleasures of comradery, the overriding influence of the coach, and race, poverty, and, yes, religion on the field, are the unforgettable subjects of Wrecking Ball.

Available again, an acclaimed collection from an American master that USA Today called Powerful . . . lyrical, vivid, engaging.Originally published twenty-five years ago, Platte River is one of the early collections that established Rick Basss reputation as a master of the short form and one of the best writers of his generation. It contains three novellas of contemporary America, each informed by the mysteries of nature and the heart. Set along borders, both physical and immaterial, all of the novellas combine a spare but radiant naturalism with an outsize aspiration to folklore or myth. In the title story, a former pro linebacker living a simple, isolated life in the Canadian woods just across the border from Montana struggles with his artist girlfriends desire to escape. Invited by his best friend from their college football days to give a talk at the school where the friend now teaches, he flies to northern Michigan. In the class the next morning, after a night fishing party on the Platte River, what he learns brings acceptance, and a kind of salvation. In Mahatma Joe, a despairing evangelist living in a valley that was once so wild the people would go naked when the Chinook winds blew, announcing winters end, throws his fervor into planting a garden along the river, bringing purpose to the young woman who had camped there. Field Events, the most comic of the stories, begins when two athlete brothers spy an enormous, muscled man swimming in the river, hauling a canoe loaded with cast iron. Their plan to train him in the discus meets with complications, when the giant and their older sister find in each other the missing part that neither could articulate.

La vallée du Yaak, dans le Montana, est lun des derniers espaces sauvages des États-Unis, un lieu où cohabitent ours noirs et grizzlys, loups et coyotes, aigles, lynx, cerfs et même une poignée dhuma

Les grizzlys parcourent-ils les montagnes des San Juan, dans le Colorado, où ils sont depuis longtemps considérés comme éteints ?Sur la foi dune improbable rumeur, Rick Bass accompagne le légendaire

Winner of the National Outdoor Book AwardLonglisted for the Reading the West Book Awards"Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-new piecesFor acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us.Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription, to inhabit, as deeply as possible, the greater depths of the beauty in each moment. With Every Great Breath ranges from the extremely locala long-form essay about the community affected by the largest Superfund site in U.S. history, in Libby, Montanato the far-flung: the Galapagos, Namibia, and Alaska. Throughout, Bass offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders, even in the face of environmental crisis.

Rick Basss Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is both lost and found, past and present. The stories reach from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and from Houston in the 1960s to today. They are bound together by a deep love and a keen eye for the land and its people and by an appreciation for what is given, a ruefulness for what is lost, and a commitment to save what can be saved.This is a journalists Texas scrapbook, then: a firefighting story, a musical pilgrimage, a ramble in Texass tiniest public wilderness (one of only five in the entire state). Fishing with my father and uncle on a lake that is partly in Texas and partly in Louisiana; flying around the borders of Texasusually defined by water, a resource that will vanish in much of the state within our lifetime; hanging out at my parents cattle farm down near Goliad; reading the work of Texans before me.from the Introduction

An extraordinary exploration and meditation . . . [Bass] transports us along on this wonder-filled tour, full of hardness and hope, into an otherworldly place that mirrors our own. National Geographic TravelerBlack rhinos are not actually black. They are, however, giant animals with tiny eyes, feet the diameter of laundry baskets, and horns that are prized for both their aesthetic and medicinal qualities. Until recently, these creatures were perched on the edge of extinction, their numbers dwindling as they succumbed to poachers and the ravages of civil war. Now their numbers are rising, thanks to a groundbreaking new conservation method from the Save the Rhino Trust: make sure that rhinos are worth more alive than dead.Rick Bass, who has long worn the uneasy mantle of both activist and hunter, traveled to Namibia to find black rhinos. The tale of his journey provides a deeper understanding of these amazing animals and of just what needs to be done to protect them.Bass provides a singularly thoughtful portrait of a unique animal, and a meditation on mankinds relationship to both it and the natural world as a whole. Minneapolis Star TribuneHow does one species pull back from the brink, and what does its survival mean for our own?A Hunters Perspective: Rick Bass, both activist and hunter, offers a unique and deeply personal meditation on humanitys complex relationship with the wild. Community-Based Conservation: An inside look at the groundbreaking methods of the Save the Rhino Trust, a model built on the revolutionary idea of making a rhino worth more alive than dead. Lyrical Travel Writing: Journey into the otherworldly landscape of Damaraland, a place of stark beauty where giant animals with feet the size of laundry baskets roam an ancient, unforgiving earth. Anti-Poaching Efforts: A raw and hopeful account of the fight to protect the rhino from poachers and the lingering ravages of civil war, documenting the razors edge between survival and extinction.

IL·LUSTRACIONS D'ELIZABETH HUGHES En una remota vall de trenta habitants, l'última sense electricitat de l'estat nord-americà de Montana, en ple hivern, Rick Bass descriu la natura i la llibertat de

Rick Basss recent trio of novellas, Platte River, was hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a major step in [his] climb to the top echelon of American fiction writers." Now, with this dazzling new collection, Bass establishes himself as a master of the short story. These tales embrace vibrant images of human life and exuberant explorations of the natural world. In the title story, a man remembers his youth in the Texas hill country when he participated in his uncles raucous escapades, which have taken new shape and meaning by what has happened since. Although his work is grounded in reality, Basss stories acquire fantastic proportions: enormous pigs charge through the streets and root beneath houses; a narrator meets a woman who runs up and down mountains; two wild boys converge deep in the woods to joust. Each of these ten stories is a mythical narrative celebrating the tentative, moving relationship between people and their environment.

Un escritor gigante y uno de los autores absolutamente referenciales en el ámbito de la 'nature writing'. De manera incomprensible, inédito hasta ahora en castellano. En el valle del Yaak, Montana,