';Bass's fiction takes us to the borders of civilization, where we glimpse an untamed world of myth and mystery' (Entertainment Weekly). In this ';moving and self-assured collection' of short fiction, enormous pigs charge through the streets and root under houses; a woman runs up and down mountains; children don wolf masks to chase a boy through the woods; and a man remembers his youth in the Texas hill country, when he joined in his uncle's raucous escapades (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Here, the award-winning author of Platte River and other acclaimed works, renowned for his insightful portrayals of people and their interactions with the natural world, ';expresses his profound love of the wild. His sense of the magnificent and bewildering complexity of life infuses each of the haunting short stories in this strong collection' (Booklist).
