In the Heart of the Heart of the Country In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

And Other Stories

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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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
November 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.1
MB
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