All the Land to Hold Us :: Rick Bass

• All the Land to Hold Us by Rick Bass on Amazon

West Texas, oil, wealth, death, geology… and, of course, The Land. I'm not sure much "meaning"-filled activity transpired during the 300+ pages of All the Land to Hold Us, but I am sure I love Rick Bass' poetic evocations of landscape and light, of fear, of loss, of emptiness. I felt I was there in those spaces, in those places, with those characters, but in the end, we'd journeyed from there to nowhere. Recommend? Yes, if only for the rhythmic movement and the beauty of Rick Bass' sometimes exquisite writing, though you might enjoy some of the characters, too.

• My Amazon Review: beautiful writing that rambles to nowhere