The Lives of Rocks
By Rick Bass
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hardcover, 9780618596744, 224pp.)
Publication Date: November 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: Short Stories (single author)
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Rick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: the title story concerns a woman recovering from cancer; "Pagans" tells, at forty years' distance, of a girl and two boys -- one of whom was in love with her -- and the dangerous games they played; in "Her First Elk," a woman reflects on her first elk hunt and on her memories of her father and two brothers, now all dead. These stories, distinguished by their maturity, are narrated by men and women with compelling life tales. Filled with Bass's hallmark lean and beautiful prose, they are further proof of his mastery of the short fiction form.
RICK BASS’s fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Most recently, his memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
"Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection of 10 short stories." Publishers Weekly, Starred
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