Bass, Rick | Publishers Weekly (review date 27 May 2002)
Publishers Weekly (review date 27 May 2002)
SOURCE: Review of The Hermit's Story, by Rick Bass. Publishers Weekly 249, no. 21 (27 May 2002): 34.
[In the following review, the critic maintains that The Hermit's Story, as a whole is uniformly excellent and that each story is both lovely and satisfying.]
s Nature is as otherworldly as a line of bright birds frozen stiff, and as prosaic as a patch of grass, in this uniformly excellent collection. In the title story [of The Hermit's Story], a dog trainer and her companion, a man called Gray Owl, take six dogs out on a hunting exercise. Toward the end of their trip, Gray Owl falls through the ice of a lake, but instead of drowning, winds up on at the bottom of a dry basin covered with a layer of ice. He is joined by the trainer and the dogs, and together they cross the lake under the ice, an adventure that forces the trainer to examine her perspective, since every...
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