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Platte River: Three Novellas
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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 Bass's 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 girlfriend's 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 winter's 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.
Author: Rick Bass
ISBN-10: 1948924048
ISBN-13: 9781948924047
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
Author: Rick Bass
ISBN-10: 1948924048
ISBN-13: 9781948924047
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
About the Author
Rick Bass is an author and activist. He has received many awards and honors for his short fiction, including the O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize, the PEN/Nelson Algren Special Citation, and the Story Prize. He is also the author of novels and nonfiction, most recently The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. He lives in the Yaak Valley, Montana, where he is a member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council.
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