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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
by William H. Gass
ISBN: 0879233745
ISBN-13: 9780879233747
Format: Paperback
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Summary
The title story consists of a group of 36 shorter pieces, which all take place in the same Midwestern town and are told by the same narrator, an unnamed poet and professor.
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"This collection...serves to focus the distinctive qualities of his sensibility and style....Gass is 'old-fashioned' in his insistence that human language is an immediate extension of human feeling and cognition. But what makes him modern is how much he knows-like John Barth, Thomas Pynchon and Walker Percy he is one of the philosopher-novelists who bring a new intellectual power to the basically transcendental American sensibility. It is writing like this that will achieve, if it is at all possible, a saving continuity with tradition as it attempts to save human feeling and individuality for art." -- Jack Kroll
-- Newsweek
"[Gass] makes clear the rewards of the imagination...through near perfect language..." -- Jack Richardson
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
Published date: 1984
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Five short stories depict love, misfortune and the challenge of midwestern life.
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21)
William H. Gass
David R Godine, 2005-06-03. Paperback. Very Good. This is a very nice paperback copy.Binding is tight and square.Text is clean and bright.We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery!Careful packaging and fast shipping. ( more information) Offered by Icapsa Used Books (United States)
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