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A Temple of Texts: Essays by William H. Gass
Category: Culture | Series: American Literature Series
Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, A Temple of Texts is the latest critical collection from one of America's greatest essayists and novelists. Here, William H. Gass pays homage to the readerly side of the literary experience by turning his critical sensibility upon all the b ...Show more
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke; Daniel Slager; William H. Gass (Introduction by); Michael Eastman (Photographer)
Category: Art and Design
Rainer Maria Rilke's influential essay interpreting the work of Auguste Rodin. Rodin himself approved of Rilke's interpretation.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more
Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William H. Gass
Category: Culture
A dazzling new collection of essays -- on reading, writing, form, and thought -- from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among ...Show more
Middle C by William H. Gass
Category: Fiction
A literary event--the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of "The Tunnel". Gass's new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vo ...Show more
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
Category: Philosophy and Religion
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis; Tom McCarthy (Introduction by); William H. Gass (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving fr ...Show more
The William H. Gass Reader by William H. Gass
Category: Reference
A literary delight--a reading feast; a Gassian celebration--the best of the best: more than fifty selections chosen by Gass himself from his essays, criticism, commentary, short stories, and novels. It begins with his essays, in which Gass looks back at varying points in his writing life at those wr ...Show more
The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass
Category: Culture | Series: Scholarly Series
The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it ...Show more
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