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Article: A sense of the seasons in Montana isolation
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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In the first few pages of his beautiful chronicle of a year at
home in Montana's rugged, isolated Yaak Valley, Rick Bass expresses
a desire to do for the Yaak what Henry David Thoreau did for
Concord's Walden Pond. Bass, like Thoreau, observes the daily
changes in nature and within himself as the seasons arrive in front
of his wilderness cabin.
Bass is an elegant writer never afraid to tease out nature's
deeper meanings. Writing an essay for each month, Bass observes of
the constant snowfall of January that "it just keeps pouring down .
. . as if some dense and infinite reservoir above has been opened
with a knife and the snow is pouring out through a rip." And like
Thoreau, Bass observes ...