Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State
by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a
Texas that is both lost and found, past and present. The stories
reach from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and
from Houston in the 1960s to today. They are bound together by a
deep love and a keen eye for the land and its people and by an
appreciation for what is given, a ruefulness for what is lost, and
a commitment to save what can be saved. "This is a journalist's
Texas scrapbook, then: a firefighting story, a musical pilgrimage,
a ramble in Texas's tiniest public wilderness (one of only five in
the entire state). Fishing with my father and uncle on a lake that
is partly in Texas and partly in Louisiana; flying around the
borders of Texas--usually defined by water, a resource that will
vanish in much of the state within our lifetime; hanging out at my
parents' cattle farm down near Goliad; reading the work of Texans
before me."--from the Introduction
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