For a Little While

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, which will confirm his reputation as one of the most astonishing American writers today.

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 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 uplift.

Rick Bass este de neegalat in capacitatea sa de a percepe si a infatisa adevarurile durabile ale inimii umane. Colectat aici pentru prima data este volumul definitiv al povestilor sale, selectat din treizeci de ani de munca, care ii va confirma reputatia ca unul dintre cei mai uimitori scriitori americani de astazi. A citi fictiunea lui inseamna a te simti mai viu si a fi captivat prin expresia sa a vastitatii experientei umane si a minunatei frumuseti a lumii naturale.