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  • Omensetter's Luck

    by William H Gass ...
    "The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New RepublicNow celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes: Novellas and Stories.Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Tunnel

    by William Gass ...
    Series series Dalkey Essentials
    Perhaps even more chillingly relevant today than it was thirty years ago, this gripping and deeply personal interrogation of fascism returns to print at last in a remarkable full-color anniversary edition.The Tunnel, William H. Gass’ colossal second novel, thundered onto the literary scene in 1995 after three decades at the typewriter. Hailed by many as an indisputable masterpiece, reviled by ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Recognitions

    by William Gaddis, William H. Gass ...
    A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century.The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

    And Other Stories

    by William H. Gass ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Eyes

    Novellas and Stories

    by William H. Gass ...
    A dazzling new collection—two novellas and four short stories from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of seven books of fiction, among them The Tunnel (“An extraordinary achievement”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Middle C (“Exhilaratingly ingenious”—Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review, cover); and Cartesian Sonata (“The finest prose stylist in America”—The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Middle C

    by William H. Gass ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A literary event—the long-awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by the acclaimed author of The Tunnel (“The most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.”—Michael Silverblatt, Los Angeles Times; “An extraordinary achievement”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post); Omensetter’s Luck (“The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • The William H. Gass Reader

    by William H. Gass ...
    “A dazzling compendium of fiction and literary essays…a banquet…joyous…superb.” —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal. From the author of The Tunnel.This definitive collection brings together the finest fiction and essays of William Gass, one of America’s most celebrated stylists. Spanning his entire career, it offers both a rich introduction for new readers and an essential volume for longtime admirers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Temple of Texts

    by William H. Gass ...
    From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from a deep commitment to the word. Here is Gass on Rilke and Gertrude Stein; on friends such as Stanley Elkin, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • On Being Blue

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by William H. Gass ...
    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 reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Making of Americans

    by Gertrude Stein ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Gertrude Stein’s monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication.In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Sentences

    Literary Judgments and Accounts

    by William H. Gass ...
    A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Proust). He writes about a few ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Cartesian Sonata

    And Other Novellas

    by William H. Gass ...
    From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and Finding a Form--four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represented by a housewife who is a modern-day Cassandra. And Matter is, what (and who) else but the helpless and confused husband of Mind. In the novella ... Read more

    $7.99 USD