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Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 September 1997)

SOURCE: Review of The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, by Rick Bass. Kirkus Reviews (15 September 1997): 1402.

[In the following review, the commentator praises The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, calling the stories appealing, thoughtful, and captivating.]

Two appealing short stories and an exquisite novella [The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness] from Montana essayist and storyteller Bass (The Book of Yaak, 1996; In the Loyal Mountains, 1995, etc.).

The title novella revels in the rugged beauty of bluffs and thickets in Texas hill country, where three generations preserve the family ranch as a haven for wild animals and the wild at heart. The narrator, a middle-aged woman living alone on the ranch with her memories, recalls her formative influences: iron-willed Grandfather, whose battle cry (“the natural history of Texas is still being...

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1. Introduction
2. Criticism
   1. Christopher Merrill (essay date winter 1989)
   2. Mark Kamine (review date 6 February 1989)
   3. Meredith Sue Willis (review date 26 March 1989)
   4. Perry Glasser (essay date September 1989)
   5. Jon Saari (review date fall 1989)
   6. John Mort (review date 1 February 1994)
   7. Sam Walker (review date 8 March 1994)
   8. Christopher Tilghman (review date 13 March 1994)
   9. Robert Buffington (essay date fall 1994)
   10. James LeMonds (review date November 1994)
   11. Publishers Weekly (review date 1 May 1995)
   12. Dan Cryer (review date 19 June 1995)
   13. David Long (essay date 26 June 1995)
   14. Elaine Kendall (review date 27 June 1995)
   15. Rick Bass and K. C. Johnson (interview date 7 February 1996)
   16. Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 September 1997)
   17. Publishers Weekly (review date 15 September 1997)
   18. Donna Seaman (review date 15 October 1997)
   19. Andy Solomon (review date 30 November 1997)
   20. Thomas Curwen (review date 18 January 1998)
   21. Rick Bass and Bonnie Lyons and Bill Oliver (interview date 1998)
   22. Rick Bass (essay date 1998)
   23. J. P. Steed (essay date fall 2000)
   24. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. (essay date 2000)
   25. Donna Seaman (review date 1 May 2001)
   26. Publishers Weekly (review date 27 May 2002)
   27. Jim Coan (review date 1 June 2002)
   28. Chris Solomon (review date 5 July 2002)
3. Further Reading
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