For a Little While
Published on 2. February 2017
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-1-78227-304-2 (ISBN)
Description
<b>'These stories are adventurous, wise and unexpectedly beautiful' Lorrie Moore
'A rich collection of stories by a major American writer' Annie Proulx</b>
Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Collected here for the first time is the definitive volume of his stories, selected from thirty years of work.
To read his fiction is to feel more alive, and to be captivated by his expression of the vastness of human experience, and the awesome beauty of the natural world. The men and women in these stories live with intensity and tenderness, struggling against their fate at the moment of recognition. Rick Bass's sentences resonate with lush and exquisite language, and his writing can both shock and astonish.
The stories collected in <i>For a Little While</i> - brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery - have the power both to devastate and uplift.
'A rich collection of stories by a major American writer' Annie Proulx</b>
Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Collected here for the first time is the definitive volume of his stories, selected from thirty years of work.
To read his fiction is to feel more alive, and to be captivated by his expression of the vastness of human experience, and the awesome beauty of the natural world. The men and women in these stories live with intensity and tenderness, struggling against their fate at the moment of recognition. Rick Bass's sentences resonate with lush and exquisite language, and his writing can both shock and astonish.
The stories collected in <i>For a Little While</i> - brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery - have the power both to devastate and uplift.
Reviews / Votes
Bass is a modern-day Henry Thoreau... It doesn't take you long to discover their appeal... a rallying cry against our modern, urban existence which stops us from experiencing life so intensely... a celebration of being wild... What better books to read on a frustrating commute than this collection of small stories about big landscapes * The Times * Rick Bass's haunting tales of the Montana wilderness glitter like ice sculptures - dazzling and unforgettable... Praise to Pushkin Press for introducing us to an astonishing literary voice * Spectator * What a rare find: a page-turner so generously crafted that, rather than turn the pages, you just want to sit and marvel... Hypnotic... Bass has a gift for conveying human consciousness and all its vexing diversions and looping thoughts * New Statesman * The sheer majesty of Bass's storytelling... remarkable descriptions of the wild and savage landscapes * Daily Mail * The plotting is tense, the writing lean... we are lucky to have a few of his dispatches from the mountains * Times Literary Supplement * He is a modern-day Henry Thoreau... Bass's characters are larger than life and touched with magic * Times, Best Summer Books 2017 * Phenomenal * RTE Arena * These are arresting, unforgettable stories that will shake you to the core * The Lady * I found the often unusual, magical nature of the events contained within each story thrilling... The idea of almost magic, almost reality, almost tangible ideas, characters and scenarios is what I will take away from For a Little While * The Bookbag * He is revered as a serious writer with a good deal in common, stylistically and thematically, with Annie Proulx, who shares his rugged sensibility and interest in processes... He is informed and very aware of both the insignificance of man in the natural world, and of the damage he wreaks * Irish Times * I am so grateful to Rick Bass for writing these stories, I cannot tell you * Elle Thinks (blog) * '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 * A rich collection of stories by a major American writer -- Annie Proulx These stories are adventurous, wise and unexpectedly beautiful -- Lorrie Moore Nothing short of remarkable . . . Extraordinary, transcendent -- Joyce Carol Oates Each story in For a Little While is a complete hijacking of the reader's senses, accomplished with a raw and splendid subtlety -- Carl Hiaasen What a gift this bountiful book is. His stories are suffused with a quality of tenderness for all of whom he writes and the beautiful world they inhabit -- Daniel Woodrell 'His narration is pitch-perfect, and his writing so full of empathy for people and places that each story is a new revelation.' * San Francisco Chronicle *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78227-304-2 (9781782273042)
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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 thirty years. His short fiction, which has appeared on The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in The 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.