In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

Title: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Author: William H Gass
ISBN: 9781590177648
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1693991

Publisher Description:

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.