For a Little While: New and Selected Stories
โ Scribed by Bass, Rick
- Book ID
- 108882725
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 394 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316381178
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โฆ Synopsis
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...
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