In a celebration of winter in the last valley of Montana without electricity, Bass describes the wildness and freedom of valley people, the slow-motion quality of life, and the physical dangers of wilderness life. He also describes the anguish and pitfalls of being a writer and the living and dead writers with whom he feels a kinship.
Rick Bass and the men in his family have gathered for years on a piece of land in the Texas hill country to hunt deer, swap stories, make biscuits and keep memories alive. In this collection of essays he shares these experiences with his readers.
Following the life of the narrator, this story portrays the plight of an artist deeply embedded in the place he loves. Intensely grounded in landscape - in the Yaak Valley, one of the last truly wild places - the author asks how a writer survives amidst the destruction of his environment.
Oil Notes is about the excitement of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil: where it is trapped, how it is discovered, and its gradual disappearance. Written in journal form, the contrast between people's short lives is measured against the immutable history of the earth.
In this celebration of winter in a remote valley of thirty inhabitants, the last valley in Montana without electricity, Rick Bass describes the wildness and freedom of the valley people, the slow motion quality of life as if it were one hundred years ago.
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