Gass William H. - In The Heart Of The Heart Of The. - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America's finest and boldest writers of fiction and nearly fifty years later the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America's heartland with its punishing extremes of heat and cold its endless spaces and claustrophobic households its hidden and baffled desires its lurking threat of violence. Exploring and expanding the limits of the short story Gass works magic with words words that are as squirming regal and unexpected as the roaches boys icicles neighbors and neuroses that fill these pages words that shock dazzle illumine and delight.
Title: In The Heart Of The Heart Of The.
Author(s): Gass William H.
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590177648
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 11/4/2014
Category: Short Stories