Eyes: novellas and short fiction: novella
โ Scribed by William H. Gass
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 567 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Enter the sublime, upside-down / inside-out world of William H. Gass . . . in this case where the Eyes have it every which way, including up . . . in a dazzling new collection of novellas and stories (six in all) from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of sixteen books, among them, the universally acclaimed The Tunnel ("An extraordinary achievement"--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Middle C("Exhilaratingly ingenious"--Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review cover); and Life Sentences ("A literary miracle"--The New York Observer).
This enchanting, Gassian journey begins with "In Camera," an investigation into what is likely to develop when a possibly illicit collection of photographs becomes the object of a greedy salesman's loving eyes . . . In "Charity," a young lawyer, whose business it is to keep hospital equipment honestly produced, offers a simple gift and is brought to the ambiguous...
โฆ Subjects
Novellas and Stories
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