In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2014-11-04
ISBN 10 : 9781590177914
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (177 downloads)
Download In the Heart of the Heart of the Country PDF Format Full Free by William H. Gass and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
