For A Little While (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Bass, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410492222 ISBN 13: 9781410492227

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016

Synopsis

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
"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"
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.

About this title

About the Author:

Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost three decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. He is the writer in residence at Montana State University.

Review:

"Rick Bass is a national treasure." "Carl Hiassen""

"Rick Bass puts his talent as a nature writer to terrific use...His ability to map the inner lives of his characters is equally impressive." "New York Times Book Review, on The Hermit's Story.""

"Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation." "George Plimpton""

Praise for "For A Little While"
""For a Little While" is nothing short of remarkable. In the powerful lyricism of his exquisitely wrought prose, Rick Bass conveys not only the ordinary thoughts and impulses of his characters, but also those moments of pure sensation-convincing in every physical, mental, and emotional detail-when the intensity of life exists at a pitch almost beyond language. Even amid the threat of annihilation, Bass finds the promise of redemption. Grace has always been the great, elusive subject of his short fiction, and the extraordinary, transcendent stories collected here pursue it in myriad and seamless ways."
"Joyce Carol Oates""

Praise for Rick Bass
"Rick Bass is a national treasure." "Carl Hiaasen""

"One of this country's most intelligent and sensitive short story writers." ""New York Times Book Review"""

"Extravagant . . . Writing of this quality creates a stillness in the mind."
""Time """

"A master craftsman." ""Los Angeles Times"""

"What's exhilarating about Rick Bass's stories is that they show every hallmark of 'the natural'-that lucid, free-flowing, particularly American talent whose voice we can hear in Twain, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway." ""Chicago Tribune"""

"A seasoned author in full possession of his art and craft." ""Denver Post"""

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1410492222
• ISBN 13: 9781410492227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 737