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Cargando... In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (Nonpareil Books, #21) (1968 original; edición 2006)por William H Gass (Autor)
Información de la obraEn el corazón del corazón del país por William H. Gass (Author) (1968)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Gass is a philologopher, certainly, but I find that it takes patience to chop trough the thickets and brambles of his prose to find those soaring moments of poetry that lash out and sting your senses. The Pedersen Kid: vividly alienating. 4. Mrs. Mean: starkly profound. 5. Icicles: disengagingly meandering. 2. Order of Insects: platitudinally overwrought. 2. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: jabbingly groping. 3. AVG: 3.2 This is a strong collection of short stories by William H. Gass. I particularly enjoyed The Order of Insects and Icicles for the outlandish mania that grips the protagonists of the stories. In Icicles it's a failed real estate agents and in The Order of Insects a housewife who keeps finding dead insects on the carpet. Gass writes in a lyrical style that brings a flourish of mania to a setting that would in most cases be quite dull. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the Heart of the Heart of the Countryis vintage William H. Gass- two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid,a story originally published a few years before the 1965 publication of Gass's first novel Omensetter's Luck. Words populate these stories, as squirming, regal, and unexpected as the roaches, boys, icicles, neighbors, neuroses, and properties they describe. No matter how strange or estranged the human consciousness directing each symphony of words, his or her fear, delight, and disgust is uncanny and familiar. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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