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Omensetter's Luck (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
My favorite novel, bar none.: Omensetter's Luck has been a treasured, special book for me since I first read it many years ago.My copy is battered from several readings and dippings over time and the fact it once was drenched by an incoming tide and [... more]
$16.00
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Tests of Time: Essays
Amazon.com Review: For those willing to overlook the author's wandering style and bursts of elitism, William H. Gass's latest series of essays, Tests of Time, yields many rewards. Gass unifies this ambitious work with a focus on the ethics of writing, [... more]
$18.00
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Tests of Time
Amazon.com Review: For those willing to overlook the author's wandering style and bursts of elitism, William H. Gass's latest series of essays, Tests of Time, yields many rewards. Gass unifies this ambitious work with a focus on the ethics of writing, [... more]
$25.00
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Cartesian Sonata And Other Novellas
Amazon.com Review: Reading William H. Gass's fiction is a little like looking at oneself in a fractured mirror: the usual components are all there, but not necessarily in the right places. Take, for example, the title novella of Cartesian Sonata and [... more]
$17.00
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The World Within the Word: Essays
O I have sailed the seas and come to B . . .: At his best, Gass reminds me of Montaigne. While the latter spent much of his time ruminating about Self, Gass essays his verbal prowess to inhabit Word--the logos made flesh. The later Wittgenstein also [... more]
$20.00
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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
The place to start if you want to read Rilke: It may seem odd that a book about translating Rainer Maria Rilke would be a good place to start encountering the poet. But Rilke is not only a brilliant poet, one of the greatest of the twentieth century, he [... more]
$15.95
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Finding a Form: Essays
The Music of Gass: For anyone tired with the last fifteen years of "hip" postmodernism, this is an inspiring collection of darkly comic and seriously focussed essays ranging from the dillema of language and meaning to the innanity of literary [... more]
$26.00
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Finding a Form: Essays
The Music of Gass: For anyone tired with the last fifteen years of "hip" postmodernism, this is an inspiring collection of darkly comic and seriously focussed essays ranging from the dillema of language and meaning to the innanity of literary [... more]
$21.00
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Fiction and the Figures of Life
fiction and the figures of life: This is a supurb collection of essays by one of the very few American philosophers who can write well. Gass combines a penetrating insight into the human condition, an awareness of genuine philosophical difficulties, and [... more]
$13.95
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories ...
Please Keep Early Gass in Print, Vote 2: Early William H. Gass is essential. This fairly straightforward book is early Gass. Gass after Omensetter is a very personal taste. Fame, even the tiny minor academic variety, infects human beings oddly. Gass only [... more]
$13.95
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The Tunnel
Amazon.com Review: A strange and monumental novel that took William Gass three decades to write. When a Midwestern historian sits down to write the introduction to his magnum opus study of the Third Reich, he instead writes a chaotic, obscure and [... more]
$15.95
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Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (American Literature ...
This book changed the way I look at a coffee table.: This book changed the way I look at a coffee table. It changed the way I look at fonts. It must be read, browsed and left out for others to browse. Leave it in the bathroom and see what happens. You [... more]
$11.95
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