In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Book

IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul?s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gass?s Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyce?s Dubliners. First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," "Order of Insects," and the title story.Read More

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  • 0671808273
  • 9780671808273
  • William H. Gass
  • 1 January 1977
  • Pocket Books
  • Paperback (Book)
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