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.
Author: William H. Gass
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 11/04/2014
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781590177648
Language: English
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