SOURCE: Seaman, Donna. Review of The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, by Rick Bass. Booklist 94, no. 4 (15 October 1997): 385.

In the following review, Seaman contends that all three novellas in The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness are “beautifully mystical.”

Bass has delved deeply into his love of nature and written three beautifully mystical novellas [in The Sky the Stars, the Wilderness]. These long stories are disorienting at first, so imbued are they with the slow, perfect rhythm of wilderness rather than the measure of clocks and artificial busyness of human existence. His characters, too, are unfamiliar, even exotic in their intimacy with wilderness, their disconnection from society. In “The Myth of Bears,” a shimmering tale as mysterious as the northern lights, a man and a woman live deep in the woods of the Yukon, their isolation rendering them wolf- and bearlike, a transformation echoing Native Americans' profound connection to animals...