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Literary Criticism
Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected... See More
Reference
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... See More
United States
From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today. See More
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... See More
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon... See More
Literature & Fiction
In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word... See More
Literature & Fiction
The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
AprèsLe Tunnel, le nouveau chef-d'?uvre de William Gass. Joseph Skizzen est un fils d'immigrés autrichiens ayant fui leur terre natale à l'orée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour se réfugier aux États-Unis. La vie... See More
Literature & Fiction
"L'un des écrivains américains les plus importants du siècle." (George Steiner) AprèsLe Tunnel,Sonates cartésiennesetLe Musée de l'Inhumanité, William Gass revient avec ce recueil composé de deux longs récits et de... See More