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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
Eyes Novellas and Stories by Gass, MR William H, PhD (Washington University Gallery of Art)
$46.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more
Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William H. Gass
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A dazzling new collection of essays -- on reading, writing, form, and thought -- from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among ...Show more
Middle C by William H. Gass
$36.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A literary event--the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of "The Tunnel". Gass's new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vo ...Show more
Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass
$38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of vari ...Show more
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis; Tom McCarthy (Introduction by); William H. Gass (Afterword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving fr ...Show more
The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Scholarly Series
The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it ...Show more
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