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A literary event--the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by one of the most revered American writers, author of the universally ... More

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A professor has just completed a massive history of Hitler's Germany. All that remains is to write the introduction--which soon becomes a secret, ... More

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The award-winning author of "The Tunnel" and "Finding a Form" now gives readers four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God--a ... More

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"No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post

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A dazzling new collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. It begins with the personal, both ... More

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In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the ... More

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William H. Gass, one of america's most brilliant and eclectic minds, examines literature, culture, writers, and the nature and uses of language and ... More

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Criticism and essays on aesthetics.

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"No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post

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From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of ... More

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"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of ... More

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"Tests of Time" brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" ... More

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As Sir Thomas Browne used the burial urns in "Hydriotaphia" to explore many meanings and issues, so William H. Gass examines the color blue and all ... More

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Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of ... More

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"The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us ... More

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"Essential for all literature collections . . . Several of Stein's titles returned to print in 1995, but none more important than The Making of ... More

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"The itch to make dark marks on paper is shared by many writers and artists," begins John Updike in his essay in "The Writer's Brush," and this ... More

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Cultural Studies. Autobiography. Visual Arts.THREE ESSAYS presents the work of three of America's most distinguishedwriters--Gerald Early, William H. ... More

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