The William H. Gass Reader

by William H. Gass

Book Overview

Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected in one volume. There are essays on Plato, Hobbes, James, Joyce, Beckett, Stein, Gaddis, Sterne, Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Mann. There are pieces that examine the inner workings of writing. There is his masterful short fiction, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101873345
• ISBN13: 9781101873342
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"