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The hermit's story / stories by Rick Bass.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A8213 H47 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bass, Rick, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
- Summary:
- The Hermit's Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and a woman travel across an eerily frozen lake -- under the ice. "The Distance" casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man's visit to Monticello. "Eating" begins with an owl being sucked into a canoe and ends with a man eating a town out of house and home, and "The Cave" is a stunning story of a man and woman lost in an abandoned mine. Some of Bass's stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, but for many readers, they won't even be the best in this collection. Every story in this book is remarkable in its own way, sure to please both new readers and avid fans of Rick Bass's passionate, unmistakable voice.
- Contents:
- The hermit's story
- Swans
- The prisoners
- The fireman
- The cave
- President's Day
- Real town
- Eating
- The distance
- Two deer.
- ISBN:
- 061813932X
- OCLC:
- 48170802
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