Bass, Rick | Andy Solomon (review date 30 November 1997)
Andy Solomon (review date 30 November 1997)
SOURCE: Solomon, Andy. “The Scientist is a Romantic.” Boston Globe (30 November 1997): G2.
[In the following review of The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, Solomon extols Bass's expression of love for and understanding of the natural landscape in which the writer's stories are set.]
Rick Bass embodies a fortunate confluence of virtues. From his earliest story collection, The Watch, he's professed a devout love for the land. As a petroleum geologist, he also possesses a scientific comprehension of the land. And as a writer of superb descriptive gifts, he has few equals in describing it.
Bass the storyteller weds art to understanding. More than a writer, he is an interpreter. But petroleum geologists bore into their ground obliquely. That's what Bass does in the two long stories and novella constituting his luminous new book [The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness]....
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