Falling In Love

Written by Rick Bass, Padgett Powell, E. Nesbit and 3 more

Narrated by Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Fionnula Flanagan and 3 more

Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones.

• Rick Bass's "Fires"
  performed by Ted Marcoux
  In the Rockies, a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of love.
• Padgett Powell's "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping"
  performed by Christina Pickles
  An eccentric southern dame cleans up her act and finds love.
• Laurie Colwin's "The Lone Pilgrim"
  performed by Hope Davis
  A New York artist longs for love and marital domesticity.
• E. Nesbit's "Melisande"
  performed by Jane Curtin
  A delicious fairy tale about a princess with a terrible curse.
• Edna O'Brien's "Violets"
  performed by Fionnula Flanagan
  A subtle portrait of a woman caught in an impossible affair.
• Maile Meloy's "Travis, B."
  performed by William Hurt
  A Western love story between a lonesome cowboy and a city gal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Symphony Space
• Release date: Jan 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9781467663465

Rick Bass

RICK BASS’s fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his memoir, Why I Came West, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.