William H Gass - Böcker

"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Be...

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A-Z guide to hazardous waste clean-upOffering the time-saving guidance of leading specialists in the field, Handbook of Complex Environmental Remediation Problems introduces you to today's best methods of cleaning up hazardous waste. This comprehe...

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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 speak to the nature and va...

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First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: wha...

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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 a...

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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, Los ...

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William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about ...

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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 of fumble. Mind is repre...

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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 translation of Rilke's master...

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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.

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These essays and panel discussions made up The Writer and Religion Conference held at Washington University in St Louis. The essays include "Moving Statues" by Eavan Boland, "Taking Offense" by J.M. Coetzee, and "The Fundamentalist Challenge" by A...

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In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappoin...

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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 Wash...

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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 in one volume. There are...

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In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.

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Conversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists. From his first major novel, Omensetter's Luck (1966), to his...

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This volume provides a descriptive and informative guide to more than 100 sites of literary significance in the greater St Louis area, featuring historical and biographical information, maps, anecdotes, and photographs.

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Dies ist das herausragende literarische Opus von einem der groÿen Autoren seiner Generation. Ein grandioser Bildungsroman mit musikalischer Grundierung und das kunstvoll komponierte Portrÿt eines Angepassten, mit weiten Ausflügen in Politik, Hi...

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Despues de su publicacion en 1968, En el corazon del corazon del pais se convirtio en un clasico de la literatura estadounidense y fue reverenciado por autores como David Foster Wallace y Cynthia Ozick. Gass demostro en este libro de relatos que e...

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El cielo, los cuadros de Yves Klein, los jeans, la lengua de la jirafa, la mirada de un escandinavo, la sangre noble, el terciopelo de la pelÿcula de David Lynch o las venas bajo la piel. Los lÿmites del azul van más allá de lo que nuestros oj...

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»I hjärtat av hjärtat av landet« är en novell av William H. Gass, först publicerad som titelnovell i en samling 1968. På ytan är det en berättelse om livet i en amerikansk småstad med sin storhetstid bakom sig, full av minnen från tiden när allt v...

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