Bass, Rick | John Mort (review date 1 February 1994)
John Mort (review date 1 February 1994)
SOURCE: Mort, John. Review of Platte River, by Rick Bass. Booklist 90, no. 11 (1 February 1994): 993.
[In the following review of Platte River, Mort comments that Bass writes beautifully, but that the three novellas included in this volume are spare and thematically unrelated.]
The Montana environmentalist (The Ninemile Wolves [1992]) here [in The Platte River] offers three spare, unrelated stories. “Platte River,” the weakest, is about an ex-football player who journeys from Montana to speak at a small college in northern Michigan. It effectively evokes the sadness of a life in which dreams were realized early, and then nothing else happened; it might make a good reading for men's consciousness meetings. “Mahatma Joe,” about a Canadian evangelist who is near death, and who manages one last convert in an embittered young woman trying to find herself in a...
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