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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; William H. Gass (Introduction by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Hailed as the paramount expression of metafiction and Irish culture, and uproariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, broadening the possibilities of what can be done in ficiton. This comic novel is the story of a loafing and inebriated Dublin-based universi ...Show more
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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 do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis; Tom McCarthy (Introduction by); William H. Gass (Afterword by)
49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving fr ...Show more
The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Scholarly Series
The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it ...Show more
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