For a Little While by Rick Bass

For a Little While by Rick Bass

The definitive collection of stories--new and old--from Rick Bass, an American classic (Newsweek). For the past three decades Rick Bass, long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, has been unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. 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. In the timeless and much-loved The Hermit's Story, a couple escapes a sudden blizzard by traversing a frozen lake-beneath the ice-while oft-anthologized treasures like The Watch and The Fireman provide searing insights into the complexity of family and romantic entanglements, whether it's a cantankerous father and son in the jungle of a Mississippi bayou, or a troubled marriage haunted and cleansed by house fires.In How She Remembers It, Bass's latest Pushcart Prize winner, a twelve-year-old girl takes her first trip to Yellowstone with her beloved father, who, unbeknownst to her, is losing his memory. In other new stories we meet an ancient, once-vital matriarch refusing all attempts to lease her oil-rich land; a teenage boy rescuing a truck from the river in which his father drowned; an alcoholic logger seeking absolution and renewal amid the ancient ruins of South America; and a father protecting his daughters from a mountain lion on a trip to harvest a Christmas tree gone awry. Bass's lush and striking language pulls us ineluctably into the lives of these engaging characters and their surroundings.These intricate stories--brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery--have the power both to devastate and to uplift. For a Little While showcases an iconic American master at his peak, and is a breathtaking work of literature every fiction reader must own.

Rick Bass, who is the editor of this collection, is the author of seventeen books of fiction and nonfiction. Mike Dombeck was the chief of the U.S. Forest Service and has written the introduction for the book. Contributors are Debra Gwartney, Chris Wood, Bob Love, Tom Franklin, Todd Tanner, Bill McKibben, Gregory McNamee, Janisse Ray, Jeff Ferderer, Ellen Meloy, Pattiann Rogers, Bob Butz, Amy Edmonds, Steve Thompson, Scott Daily, Laurie John Lane-Zucker, Rick Bass, William Kittredge, Annick Smith, Tim Linehan, Sue Halpern, Lynn Sainsbury, Douglas Chadwick, Robert Michael Pyle, Jim Fergus, Doug Peacock, David James Duncan, Carolyn Kremers, Bob Shacochis, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Alcosser, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Laura Sedler, John Wickersham, Roy Parvin.

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ISBN 13	9780316381147
ISBN 10	0316381144
Titel	For a Little While
Autor	Rick Bass
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Little, Brown & Company
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-03-21
Seitenanzahl	480
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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