Author: Rick Bass
Year: 2013
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Short Stories, Fiction, Award winners
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9780316381147
0316381144 |
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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.
Table of Contents
Selected Stories (pp 3 - 342)
Wild Horses
In Ruth's Country
Red Fish
The Watch
The Legend of Pig-Eye
The History of Rodney
Fires
Field Events
The Hermit's Story
The Fireman
Swans
Elk
Pagans
The Canoeists
Goats
Her First Elk
Titan
The Lives of Rocks
New Stories (pp 343 - 468)
How She Remembers it
The Blue Tree
Lease Hound
The River in Winter
Coach
An Alcoholic's guide to Peru & Chile
Fish Story
Acknowledgments
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