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Eyes - by William H Gass (Paperback)

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  • A master of inventive fiction, William H. Gass invites readers into a mesmerizing collection of two novellas and four short stories that blur the line between reality and imagination.
  • About the Author: William H. Gass--essayist, novelist, literary critic--was born in Fargo, North Dakota.
  • 256 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)

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A master of inventive fiction, William H. Gass invites readers into a mesmerizing collection of two novellas and four short stories that blur the line between reality and imagination. From the author of THE TUNNEL.

"Impressive. . . . Demonstrates Gass's continued experiments with narrative form." --The New York Times Book Review

In "In Camera," a reclusive photographer's carefully ordered world begins to unravel when an unexpected visitor disrupts his strange, dust-filled sanctuary of images. In "Don't Even Try, Sam," the famous piano from Casablanca reflects on memory, fame, and survival in a world where objects outlast their owners.

Perfect for readers who enjoy thought-provoking literary fiction that challenges convention and rewards close attention. Incisive, darkly funny, formally innovative and linguistically stunning, Eyes is a tour de force of modern fiction.



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"Enthralling and inventive. . . . Gass delights with devious wordplay, rhetorical gymnastics and luscious description." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"William Gass [is] our greatest living champion of the sentence." --The New York Review of Books

"Dazzlingly literary. . . . This is the kind of bracing writing that you can really feel, and it makes you feel more alive." --Paste

"Mesmerizing. . . . Compelling." --The Huffington Post

"Impressive. . . . Demonstrates Gass's continued experiments with narrative form." --The New York Times Book Review

"Powerful, passionate. . . . Gass at his best and most mysterious. . . . All of [the stories] are distinguished by Gass's dry wit, verbal facility and rich prose style." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Brilliant. . . . A wonderful entry point into the Gassian literary cosmos." --Electric Literature

"Quietly suspenseful, emotionally lustrous. . . . The literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, seething, trenchant, hilarious. . . . Gass is a mind-bending original of phenomenal brilliance, artistry, wit, and insight." --Booklist (starred review)

"Excellent. . . . [Gass is] an exquisite maker of sentences, weighing his prose like a poet for rhythm, consonance, and intellectual heft." --Kirkus Reviews

"Gass proves himself a master diviner, able to tap the deepest and most mysterious reservoirs." --Publishers Weekly




About the Author



William H. Gass--essayist, novelist, literary critic--was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of seven works of fiction and nine books of essays, including Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time, and was a professor of philosophy at Washington University. He died in 2017.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: William H Gass
Language: English
Street Date: September 20, 2016
TCIN: 92766416
UPC: 9781101873335
Item Number (DPCI): 247-20-2026
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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