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Title: For a Little While: Collected Short Stories
Author: BASS RICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 21/03/2017
Imprint: BACK BAY BOOKS
Price: $34.00
Publishing status: Active
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice 100 Recommended Books of 2016 —
San Francisco Chronicle “A literary titan…Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions.” — New York Times Book Review.
“Glorious…Extraordinary…Heartbreaking…Transcendent…Bass is an acknowledged master of the short story…His greatest gift, what makes Rick Bass one of the very best writers we have, is his understanding of the soft hearts within even the hardest people.”
Porter Shreve, San Francisco Chronicle
Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called “an American classic.” To read his fiction is to feel more alive — connected, incandescently, to “the brief longshot of having been chosen for the human experience,” as one of his characters puts it.These pages reveal men and women living with passion and tenderness at the outer limits of the senses, each attempting to triumph against fate. Bass provides searing insights into the complexity of family and romantic entanglements, and his lush and striking language draws us ineluctably into the lives of these engaging people and their vivid surroundings. The intricate stories collected in For A Little While — brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery — have the power both to devastate and to uplift. Together they showcase an iconic American master at his peak.
“Glorious…Extraordinary…Heartbreaking…Transcendent…Bass is an acknowledged master of the short story…His greatest gift, what makes Rick Bass one of the very best writers we have, is his understanding of the soft hearts within even the hardest people.”
Porter Shreve, San Francisco Chronicle
ISBN: 9780316381147