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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
Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William H. Gass
39.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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
43.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
25.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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 World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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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