The Hermit's Story
Rick Bass
Unforgettably beautiful and astonishing stories by a master of American letters
In America's little-known surviving wildernesses, things can be at once normal and extraordinary. A man, a woman and their team of hunting dogs wander for miles in a miraculous air space under a frozen lake. A couple exploring a hidden mine abandon their civilised selves for a time of primal existence before returning to their outward lives. Inspired by the author's own experiences in the remote mountains of Montana, The Hermit's Story tells tales of luck, grace and hard circumstance, of events that are unprecedented, astonishing and at the same time entirely real. Rick Bass's understated, magical prose depicts phenomena that link the manmade and the natural, fire and firefighters, an owl and a canoe. This is how short stories are supposed to be: windows on worlds, satisfying and unforgettable. "Bass is a wonderful writer" New York Times Book Review
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About Rick Bass Rick Bass lives with his wife and two daughters in the Yaak Valley of Montana, a 'pretty remote' area without electricity. He campaigns energetically on environmental issues for conservation groups fighting to protect the last roadless lands in the Western U.S. His other books include Colter; Where the Sea Used to Be; The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness; The Book of Yaak; In the Loyal Mountains; The Lost Grizzlies; and Winter.
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