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  • For a Little While: New and Selected Stories

    (By Rick Bass)

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    Author Rick Bass
    “Book Descriptions: 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

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