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Wrecking Ball: Race, Friendship, God, and Football
"The Montana writer Norman Maclean wrote, 'In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.' Rick Bass, born and raised in Houston, knows that in Texas, there's no clear line between religion and football. In Wrecking Ball, award-winning writer Rick Bass chronicles three seasons on the field with the Texas Express, a semiprofessional team in the Dynamic Texas Football Association. Light-years from the NFL, it has nowhere near the pomp of college football nor even of Texas high-school football. Most players are in their twenties, but some are older. Every year a few get to try out for the college game; others get scholarship money and a shot at another life. But for most, this is their last chance. One hundred and fifty-five pounds and forty-five years past his playing career as a one-season walk-on at Utah State, Rick Bass came to Brenham to write about the Express. But with a disastrous season unfolding, Bass was induced to suit up and take the field. Suddenly the writer became part of the story in a tale reminiscent of George Plimpton and Paper Lion. Rick's experience on and off the field and his observations about the game, the injuries, the expectations and pleasures of comradery, the influence of the coach, and race, poverty, and religion on the field, are the unforgettable subjects of Wrecking Ball."
Rick Bass (Author), Rick Bass (Narrator)
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"“The Hermit’s Story,” a short story by Rick Bass, brings readers to a remote, mountainous place where two couples are having Thanksgiving dinner together. Up in the mountains, things are always quiet. In the valley below, one can usually find the hustle and bustle of a town—but not this Thanksgiving. The power is out, and a deep, dark peace holds the land. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea.""
Rick Bass (Author), Gary Telles (Narrator)
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An Audio Bundle: Storm & Deep Blue
"Most people associate storms and other big weather with death-with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that treacherous weather-or when it finds them-and we are reminded of the fragility of life, the capriciousness of Nature's will, and how little we can do when both cross paths. In Deep Blue, for those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism."
Farley Mowat, Gordon Chaplin, Herman Melville, Jack Lemoyne, Jack London, John Muir, John Vaillant, Michael Groom, Nathaniel Philbrick, Patrick O'brian, Philip Ashton, Richard Byrd, Rick Bass, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rockwell Kent, Sebastian Junger, Stephen Crane, Whitney Balliett (Author), Barrett Whitener, Gary Telles, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Rick Foucheux, Terence Aselford (Narrator)
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"Author Rick Bass has won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry and PEN/Nelson Algren Awards for his short fiction. With The Diezmo he crafts a stirring novel that sheds light on an extraordinary but little-known episode of Texas history. When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo-a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed."
Rick Bass (Author), Brian Reddy (Narrator)
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"Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones. - Rick Bass's 'Fires' performed by Ted Marcoux In the Rockies, a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of love. - Padgett Powell's 'The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping' performed by Christina Pickles An eccentric southern dame cleans up her act and finds love. - Laurie Colwin's 'The Lone Pilgrim' performed by Hope Davis A New York artist longs for love and marital domesticity. - E. Nesbit's 'Melisande' performed by Jane Curtin A delicious fairy tale about a princess with a terrible curse. - Edna O'Brien's 'Violets' performed by Fionnula Flanagan A subtle portrait of a woman caught in an impossible affair. - Maile Meloy's 'Travis, B.' performed by William Hurt A Western love story between a lonesome cowboy and a city gal."
Edith Nesbit, Edna O'Brien, Laurie Colwin, Maile Meloy, Padgett Powell, Rick Bass (Author), Christina Pickles, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Jane Curtin, Ted Marcoux, William Hurt (Narrator)
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