Platte River

✍ Scribed by Bass, Rick

• Book ID: 100541895
• Publisher: Arcade
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 102 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1948924056

✦ Synopsis

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...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
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Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : isbn:9781948924054
Single Author : Rick Bass
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