Synopses & Reviews
"Bass creates
a slice of music history from the ground up, from the backwoods and front porches all the way to Elvis." —
Los Angeles Times 1959: the Brown siblings are the biggest thing in country music. Their inimitable harmony will give rise to the polished sound of the multibillion-dollar country music industry we know today. But when the bonds of family begin to fray, the flame of their celebrity proves as brilliant as it is fleeting. In this arresting novel, acclaimed author Rick Bass draws poignant portraits of their lives, lived both in and out of the limelight. Masterfully jumping between the Browns once auspicious past and the heartbreaking present,
Nashville Chrome is the richly imagined story of this forgotten family and an unflinching portrait of an era in American music. "An
empathic, breath-catching, mythic and profoundly American tale of creation, destruction and renewal." —
Kansas City Star "Splendid . . . Rick Basss best." —Dallas Morning News
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"Bass is never better than when he is writing from deep within his passion to save the Yaak."
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"Bass is never better than when he is writing from deep within his passion to save the Yaak."
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"A passionate, informative recounting of one man's attempt to save a very special piece of the natural world"
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"Bass is never better than when he is writing from deep within his passion to save the Yaak." The Los Angeles Times
"A passionate, informative recounting of one man's attempt to save a very special piece of the natural world" Dallas Morning News
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“Rick Bass deftly weaves the true and fictional into a wonderful novel of the rise and fall of one of country musics greatest acts—the Browns. Its as lyrical, plaintive, and true as the best country music, which is exactly what the Browns made. Nashville Chrome is a great celebration of the Browns, and above all, a terrific read.”
—Thomas Cobb author of Crazy Heart and Shavetail
Synopsis
The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, and even a handful of humans. But its magic may not be enough to save it from the forces threatening it now. In The Book of Yaak Rick Bass captures the soul of the valley itself, and he shows how, if places like the Yaak are lost, so too will be the human riches of mystery and imagination.
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Rick Bass's third novel dramatizes three real-life 1950s era country singers from Arkansas who produced a unique and eerie tempered harmony--the Nashville Sound--that for a brief period made them the biggest thing in country music.
About the Author
RICK BASS is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his 2002 collection, The Hermit’s Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. The Lives of Rocks was a finalist for the Story Prize and was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News. Bass’s stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short Stories.