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  • Written by: Rick Bass
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Publisher's Summary

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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 listen to 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 stories 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.

©2016 Rick Bass (P)2017 Hachette Audio
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What the critics say

"A literary titan...Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions." ( The New York Times Book Review)
"While nature figures heavily in Bass' work, in this collection it always yields the foreground to people and their difficult, sometimes devastating lives." ( San Francisco Chronicle)
"This is a rich collection of stories by a major American writer esteemed for his originality as well as for his fine prose. One of the trademarks of the Rick Bass story is the fresh perception of places and people in their relationships to each other. Never facile, Bass is able to make us see and feel in unexpected ways and his stories call out to readers to stop and consider, to explore their feelings about what has risen up from the pages." (Annie Proulx)

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Powerful, Clear Stories

This is such a great collection. I am really struck by how much weight Rick Bass’ literary voice carries. He manages to use the medium of short story to describe odd, profound experiences as easily as one might teach another a practical skill or job. His language is straight forward without being needlessly masculine or abrupt, and it does an excellent job at taking you through spaces and moments that seem amazing enough to tell stories about, but certainly not impossible.

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