All the Land to Hold Us

by Rick Bass

• ISBN10: 0547687435
• ISBN13: 9780547687438
• Publish Date: 13 August 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Temporarily Withdrawn
• Out of Print: 29 July 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Houghton Mifflin
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Rick Bass, writing, still, one of the only kinds of love stories that make sense to me at all. Same as he ever was, the first time I read Platte River, or The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, or Where The Sea Used To Be.

Because they’re stories— a story— about time. About geology. About sun, and salt, and death, and bright colors. And water.

And maps.

Instead, they mapped. It was like a covenant, a trust increasing slowly each day. It was not a leap into the abyss, not a plummeting nor a freefall. It was a steady, cautious edging forward, it was prudent and cautious, sustainable, it was informed by observation and sometimes even restraint.

A story, in other words, set in the appropriate framework. Sized at the appropriate intimate, infinite scale. With the costs that exist beneath the surface of all things; with all the land to hold us.