โ Scribed by William H. Gass
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{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook }
ebook, 272 pages
Published 1968
NYRB Classics (2014)
Foreword by: William H. Gass (1981)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels (1950-1999)
McCaffery 100 Greatest Fiction
Introduction by: Joanna Scott (2015)
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.
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