A Narrative exclusive from one of our greatest storytellers. Rick Bass offers a riveting new work set in the loveliness and mystery of Montana, where the unexpected, confronted on an unforgettable hunting trip, stirs and defines the heart.

The Blue Horse: A Novella

Bass, Rick

Literature & Fiction

Narrative Library

*A new edition of RISE THE EUPHRATES with an introduction by the author is now available on Amazon. Please search for Rise the Euphrates: 20th Anniversary Edition*  An international bestseller in hardcover and winner of the ANC Freedom Award, "Rise the Euphrates" is now available in this elegant paperback edition. A contemporary woman's coming of age story, the novel reaches back to 1915 Armenia, when Seta Loon's family is fractured in the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turks. Two generations later, Seta, the novel's lyrical narrator, must alter her family's legacy. "The daughter assumes what is unfinished in her mother's life," Seta learns. Caught between the generations, between American and Armenian cultures in her Connecticut town, Seta confronts an even fiercer division, the one within herself. The wisdom she gains frees the next generation in Carol Edgarian's stunningly original and ground-breaking novel.  PRAISE FOR RISE THE EUPHRATES  "This is a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today — daring, heartbreaking and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives." —Washington Post Book World  “A stunning debut—a book that will doubtless haunt its readers as it beguiles them." —The Miami Herald  "...Vivid, chilling...RISE THE EUPHRATES' richly drawn characters and the haunted voice of the narrator will long remain in readers' memories." —Robert Stone  "How often do you get to read a book that captures you so entirely and deeply that it controls your days, measures them out and defines them by how long it will be before you can get to your next night's reading? RISE THE EUPHRATES is on of these rare treasures: a work of power, grace, beauty and exquisite tenderness. This book goes beyond the reading experience; it reminds you of your own hopes and terrors. RISE THE EUPHRATES will live for a long, long time in the manner of Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." —Rick Bass  "A novel of extraordinary compassion, it's also a dead-on view of assimilation and the American experience." —Phoenix Gazette  "The writing is so good it can raise the hairs on your neck." —Elizabeth Berg, Mademoiselle

Rise the Euphrates

Edgarian, Carol

AMBITION. FAME. SEX. Envy. Gossip. Money. Death. They’re all here, in this dazzling book of quotations—many of them previously unpublished—from the diaries, journals, and notebooks of the world’s greatest writers. Arranged chronologically, from the fervent declarations of youth to the serene reflections of old age, The Writer’s Life spans twenty-three countries and four centuries to observe the entire spectrum of the human condition, with particular attention paid to the joys and agonies of literary endeavor. Eloquent, candid, brimming with passion, insight, and wit, the result is an invaluable resource for any writer—or for anyone seeking expert instruction in the art of being human.   THE WRITERS INCLUDED:   SHERWOOD ANDERSON - ISAAC BABEL - ROY BLOUNT JR. RAYMOND CARVER - ANNIE DILLARD - ATHOL FUGARD GAIL GODWIN - DONALD HALL - JIM HARRISON CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD - HENRY JAMES - CAROLYN KIZER PHILIP LEVINE - THOMAS MANN - LORRIE MOORE JOYCE CAROL OATES - BEATRIX POTTER - JAMES SALTER LEO TOLSTOY - WILLIAM TREVOR - C. K. WILLIAMS and a great many more

The Writer’s Life

Reference

Jenks, Tom

Quotations

The Winter 2012 issue from NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM features the latest short story by Alice Munro, a much-acclaimed and beloved master of the form. Also gracing the issue are stories by bestsellers David Guterson and Robert Coover, a new poem by Sherman Alexie, a personal essay by Rick Bass, and much more. You can also find NARRATIVEMAGAZINE.COM in the Kindle store, where a new edition is published each month. Don’t miss the most widely read and well-respected literary magazine of our time, the magazine that PBS praised by saying, “However you like your literature, Narrative has you covered.”

Narrative Magazine Winter 2012

WHEN YOU LIVE BY A RIVER is the fictional story of a Catskill Mountains valley community soon to be flooded to create a reservoir for New York City. The drama centers on a farmer whose wife dies in childbirth and on the farmer's fifteen-year-old niece who comes to take care of the baby in exchange for the promise of college tuition. Set in 1931, and based in part on actual circumstances involving water rights and eminent domain, this historical novel of rural lives in upstate New York unfolds a natural love story set against a background of moral conflicts and the eroding force of modernity. Mermer Blakeslee's love of place and of her characters brings readers an eloquent testament to the persistence and courage of the heart.

When You Live by a River

Blakeslee, Mermer

ABBY FRUCHT’S NEW STORY COLLECTION, The Bell at the End of a Rope, brings us intimately into the lives of characters who are as bizarre as they are endearing. A woman visits her sister, only to find that the sister, who is slowly unhinging, has made an enormous seafood feast for a former congresswoman she neglected to invite; an eight-year-old girl punches her kindred spirit in the nose just to see what it feels like; a woman who once hid her smoking from her disapproving husband loses interest in cigarettes after his death. Frucht’s deadpan yet playful voice remarks the most fantastical situations constantly occurring amid the ordinary. Her stories ask: What’s normal, anyway? What is life if not unpredictable, unbelievable, and bizarre enough to keep us wanting more?

The Bell at the End of a Rope

Frucht, Abby

Season's End

GRIMES, Tom

Genre Fiction

Legendary authors and astonishing newcomers join together in Narrative's annual edition for 2013. Here you'll find short stories, poetry, essays, istories, ipoems, and a sexy classic—nearly 400 pages of timeless amusement and fascination. This annual volume brings together more than forty of the best works published and forthcoming online at NarrativeMagazine.com for 2012-2013.

Narrative Magazine Winter Issue 2013

An international bestseller, now available in this twentieth-anniversary revised edition, Rise the Euphrates reaches back to 1915, when nine-year-old Casard witnesses the massacre of her family during the Armenian genocide. Casard emigrates to America to put the unspeakable past behind her; yet as the years pass and her only daughter, Araxie, marries outside the clan, making her husband and their children odar—outsiders—the rift between mother and daughter threatens once again to tear the family apart. It falls to Seta, the novel’s lyrical narrator and Casard’s granddaughter, to alter her family’s legacy. “The daughter assumes what is unfinished in her mother’s life,” Seta learns. Caught between the generations, and between the American and Armenian cultures in her Connecticut town, Seta confronts the fiercest division: the one within herself. The wisdom she gains frees the next generation in Carol Edgarian’s stunningly original and groundbreaking novel. PRAISE FOR RISE THE EUPHRATES "This is a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today — daring, heartbreaking and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives." —Washington Post Book World “Edgarian’s sumptuous writing and uncommon wisdom about the human spirit and its maiming seep into a reader’s heart, refusing to leave. This is a stunning debut, a book that will doubtless haunt its readers as it beguiles them." —The Miami Herald "...Vivid, chilling...RISE THE EUPHRATES' richly drawn characters and the haunted voice of the narrator will long remain in readers' memories." —Robert Stone "How often do you get to read a book that captures you so entirely and deeply that it controls your days, measures them out and defines them by how long it will be before you can get to your next night's reading? RISE THE EUPHRATES is on of these rare treasures: a work of power, grace, beauty and exquisite tenderness. This book goes beyond the reading experience; it reminds you of your own hopes and terrors. RISE THE EUPHRATES will live for a long, long time in the manner of Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." —Rick Bass "A novel of extraordinary compassion, it's also a dead-on view of assimilation and the American experience." —Phoenix Gazette "The writing is so good it can raise the hairs on your neck." —Elizabeth Berg, Mademoiselle “To the list of well-wrought generational sagas—John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Alex Haley’s Roots, and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club—add [Carol Edgarian’s] powerful first novel, RISE THE EUPHRATES.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Few first novels are as deeply felt, yet so clearly communicative, as this one. It touches universals while powerfully evoking the everyday world in which we cope within our families with past, present and future. . . . Edgarian’s novel has literary award written on every page.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune “RISE THE EUPHRATES is an important, powerful, poignant novel. . . . Carol Edgarian’s prodigious talents as a storyteller, her ability to account what there was and was not for these Armenian Americans, should not be missed.” —Don Lee, Ploughshares “RISE THE EUPHRATES packs an emotional wallop.” —Elle “Where is Armenia today? . . . One could almost say that Armenia persists in Carol Edgarian’s prose.” —New York Times Book Review “A beautiful and generous book.” —Chicago Tribune “One of the summer’s Best Reads!” —Vogue “RISE THE EUPHRATES will draw any reader into Edgarian’s spell.” —Georgia Guardian “In Edgarian’s hands [the novel] becomes a richly woven tale spanning three generations of women.” —Hartford Advocate

Rise the Euphrates: 20th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by the Author

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