Bass roams widely, from the oil refineries of Texas to the mountain streams of upstate New York to Montana's majestic and forbidding Yaak River Valley. One feels the dance of seasons—humid summers and the sting of blizzards. But there's a common vulnerability among his characters, men and women who homestead on the margins, seeking out yet often retreating from human connection. Bass also probes the gray zone between our daylight lives and hidden impulses, as in teenage Annie's awakening desire for two male friends: "She beheld their bodies. They filled her dreams—first one boy, then the other—as did dreams of ghost ships and underworld rides."
Bass's gentle surrealism is reflected in iridescent sentences that ebb and flow, opening spaces for deeper meaning to emerge. For a Little While casts a spell both mythic and intimate, through the words of a virtuoso.
WATCH OWN APP
Download the Watch OWN app and access OWN anytime, anywhere. Watch full episodes and live stream OWN whenever and wherever you want. The Watch OWN app is free and available to you as part of your OWN subscription through a participating TV provider.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WATCH OWN APP >NEWSLETTERS
SIGN UP FOR NEWSLETTERS TODAY AND ENJOY THE BENEFITS.
OPRAH IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HARPO, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 2024 HARPO PRODUCTIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK