No other living American writer can drop us into the wild, wild West or a Texas countryside like Rick Bass. Writing with empathy and great humility, he makes characters we can touch; we meet them in Montana valleys or while trespassing on a Texas ranch. His newest effort, The Diezmo, combines those qualities with gorgeous desert-landscape love scenes. The Diezmo also feels darker than Bass’s previous efforts; it’s a re-creation of a murderous history along the Texas-Mexico border that conjures Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.
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