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IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gass’s Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyce’s Dubliners. First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," "Order of Insects," and the title story.
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories, William Gass
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
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- Titel
- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- William Gass
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0879233745
- ISBN13
- 9780879233747
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Klassiker, Kurzgeschichten, USA, Amerikanische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert
- Bewertung
- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gass’s Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyce’s Dubliners. First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," "Order of Insects," and the title story.