Les grizzlys parcourent-ils les montagnes des San Juan, dans le Colorado, où ils sont depuis longtemps considérés comme éteints ? sur la foi d'une improbable rumeur, rick Bass accompagne le légendaire Doug Peacock (héros du mythique Gang de la clef à Molette d'Edward Abbey) et son ami le biologiste Dennis Sizemore sur la piste de ces animaux fabuleux, traquant la moindre empreinte de patte ou trace de griffe. Tandis que s'enchaînent les péripéties, les trois hommes sont de plus en plus hantés par la présence de l'animal insaisissable.

Les derniers grizzlys

Rick Bass is one of the foremost writers of his generation, charging headlong past the hard surface of modern life to illuminate human beings and their relationship to the natural world. Platte River is a collection of three novellas, each a singular exploration of the human heart set against the backdrop of God’s creation.Filled with arresting images— chinook winds flying through a valley, couples skating in the dark on thin ice, tools made from animal bones, a delicate shape frozen in a river— “Mahatma Joe” is about an evangelist who settles in Grass Valley, Montana, and the woman who becomes obsessed with his vision of the world. In “Field Events” a woman falls in love with a man even larger than her discus-tossing brothers. And the title novella, “Platte River,” portrays one man’s lyric meditation on loneliness, the nature of peace, and the quest for love.

Platte River

Castle Gap, Texas. 1930. Max Omo vit du commerce du sel qu'il extrait d'un lac voisin. Trente ans plus tard, Richard, géologue, supervise une exploitation de pétrole et arpente le désert texan à la recherche de fossiles et d'ossements. A travers ces deux destins, Rick Bass nous livre une histoire d'homme et de terre. Une femme sublime à la pâleur surnaturelle, un chasseur de trésor unijambiste, un éléphant de cirque en cavale, un poisson-chat gigantesque, des chercheurs de pétrole tenaces : telles sont quelquesunes des créatures qui traversent ce roman foisonnant. Mais c'est aussi une déclaration d'amour à une région chère à l'auteur, écrivain-écologiste emblématique du "nature-writing", qui dénonce les méfaits de l'industrie sur un paysage millénaire. Toute la terre qui nous possède témoigne ainsi de l'incroyable sens de l'Histoire et de la topographie qui traverse toute l'oeuvre de Rick Bass.

Toute la terre qui nous possède

Late in 1959, the Brown siblings—Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed—were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide megahit on their hands, which topped both the country and pop charts and gave rise to the polished sound of the multibillion dollar country music industry we know today. Mesmerized by the Browns’ haunting harmonies, the Beatles even tried to learn their secret. Their unique harmony, however, was only achievable through shared blood, and the trio’s perfect pitch was honed by a childhood spent listening for the elusive pulse and tone of an impeccably tempered blade at their parent’s Arkansas sawmill.But the Browns’ celebrity couldn’t survive the world changing around them, and the bonds of family began to fray along with the fame. Heartbreakingly, the novel jumps between the Browns’ promising past and the present, which finds Maxine—once supremely confident and ravenous in her pursuit of applause—ailing and alone. As her world increasingly narrows, her hunger for just one more chance to secure her legacy only grows, as does her need for human connection.Lyrical and nuanced, Nashville Chrome hits all the right grace notes with its vivid evocation of an era in American music, while at its heart it is a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and of one family—forgotten yet utterly unforgettable when reclaimed by Bass—who experienced them firsthand.

Nashville Chrome

These tales simultaneously embrace vibrant images of ordinary human life and exuberant descriptions of the natural world. In the title story, a man remembers his youth in the Texas hill country when he joined in his uncle's raucous escapades, which have taken on new shape and meaning in light of what has happened since. While Bass's work is grounded in an uncompromising vision of truth, he magnifies elements until they acquire fantastic proportions. In these stories enormous pigs charge through the streets and root under houses; a narrator meets a woman who runs up and down mountains; a group of children don wolf masks to chase a boy through the woods. Each story is a mythical narrative celebrating the complex and moving relationship between humans and their environment.

Dans Les Monts Loyauté

Les grizzlys parcourent-ils les montagnes des San Juan, dans le Colorado, où ils sont depuis longtemps considérés comme éteints ? Sur la foi d'une improbable rumeur, Rick Bass accompagne le légendaire Doug Peacock (héros du mythique Gang de la clef à molette d'Edward Abbey) et son ami le biologiste Dennis Sizemore sur la piste de ces animaux fabuleux, traquant la moindre empreinte de patte ou trace de griffe. Tandis que s'enchaînent les péripéties, les trois hommes sont de plus en plus hantés par la présence de l'animal insaisissable.
 
Ce grand récit d'aventures à l'écriture intense est aussi une quête initiatique à la recherche de la part de mystère et de sauvagerie qui demeure au plus profond de chacun d'entre nous.

Les Derniers Grizzlys

From one of our most gifted writers, a novel of seekers that spans three generations set amid the harsh terrain of West Texas.   Rick Bass proves once again that strange and powerful landscapes summon strange and powerful happenings in his masterfully crafted fourth novel. Adding lushness to a harsh desert backdrop, All the Land to Hold Us interweaves multiple narratives of the residents of Midland: oil and gas wildcatters, salt miners, high school football players (this is Texas, after all), a lonely widower, a spinster Mormon school teacher amid Baptists, a one-legged treasure-hunter, and a local beauty dreaming of bigger things. They are connected not only by place, but also by human longing. Bass’s unmistakable voice is showcased and the hallmarks of his work—environment, endangered innocence, human greed, regret, and redemption—are all writ large on this canvas. The strands of All the Land to Hold Us bind together place and the persons who adapt to, and ultimately, despoil it.

Les derniers grizzlys

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