Rick Bass
All Books By Rick Bass
For a Little While
- By: Rick Bass
- Narrator: Rick Bass
- Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 21, 2017
- Language: English
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4.04(432 ratings)
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.
Nashville Chrome
- By: Rick Bass
- Narrator: Rick Bass
- Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 11, 2011
- Language: English
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3.21(241 ratings)
The fiction of Rick Bass has been honored with O. Henry Awards, Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Nashville Chrome presents Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown, a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959’s country music charts. The world at their feet, lives of success seem to spread out before them like an unending highway. But celebrity has its price, and the times ahead will deliver more than their fair share of bumps in the road.
... Read moreThe Diezmo
- By: Rick Bass
- Narrator: Rick Bass
- Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 03, 2009
- Language: English
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3.5(199 ratings)
Author Rick Bass has won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry and PEN/Nelson Algren Awards for his short fiction. With The Diezmo he crafts a stirring novel that sheds light on an extraordinary but little-known episode of Texas history. When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo-a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.
... Read moreThe Traveling Feast
- By: Rick Bass
- Narrator: Rick Bass
- Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 05, 2018
- Language: English
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3.85(325 ratings)
From his bid to become Eudora Welty’s lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point — in his midfifties, with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house — Bass strikes out on a journey of thanksgiving. His aim: to make a memorable meal for each of his mentors, to express his gratitude for the way they have shaped not only his writing but his life.
The result, an odyssey to some of America’s most iconic writers, is also a record of self-transformation as Bass seeks to recapture the fire that drove him as a young man. Along the way we join in escapades involving smuggled contraband, an exploding grill, a trail of blood through Heathrow airport, an episode of dog-watching with Amy Hempel in Central Park, and a near run-in with plague-ridden prairie dogs on the way to see Lorrie Moore, as well as heartwarming and bittersweet final meals with the late Peter Matthiessen, John Berger, and Denis Johnson. Poignant, funny, and wistful, The Traveling Feast is a guide to living well and an unforgettable adventure that nourishes and renews the spirit.