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Eyes : Novellas and Stories by William Gass (2015, Hardcover)
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The William H. Gass EYES Novellas & Stories 1st Edition 1st Printing is a hardcover book containing a collection of fiction short stories by William Gass. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 2015, this first edition book features a narrative style that is both humorous and literary. Book shows No: highlights, notes, writing, underlining, markings and tears. Pages are intact and clean. The dust jacket is in great condition. All hardcover books will be bubble-wrapped, pack inside a sturdy box and sent via USPS. Thanks for looking. loc: 2-5FL
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101101874724
ISBN-139781101874721
eBay Product ID (ePID)208712069
Product Key Features
Book TitleEyes : Novellas and Stories
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam Gass
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.1 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-041957
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsPraise for William H. Gass' EYES "Powerful, passionate . . . Gass at his best and most mysterious . . . impressive . . . All of [the stories] are distinguished by Gass' dry wit, verbal facility and rich prose style." -Harper Barnes, St Louis Post-Dispatch "Quietly suspenseful, emotionally lustrous . . . The literary equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, seething, trenchant, hilarious . . . imaginative and incisive . . . Gass is a mind-bending original of phenomenal brilliance, artistry, wit, and insight." -Donna Seaman, Booklist (Starred Review) "[Gass is] an exquisite maker of sentences, weighing his prose like a poet for rhythm, consonance, and intellectual heft . . . excellent . . . dry but artful . . . It says something about Gass' talent and flexibility that he can write an effective story that's narrated by a barber-shop folding chair. But this is Gass' universe, and here, even folding chairs don't get off easy. Glum fun. - Kirkus "It is evident from these tales that [Gass'] creative fount is far from dry. The book opens with two novellas, each of which coaxes sublimity out of wry, misanthropic portraits . . . acerbic and nostalgic . . . Gass proves himself a master diviner, able to tap the deepest and most mysterious reservoirs." - Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA 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 Washington Post ); Middle C ("Exhilaratingly ingenious"--Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review, cover); and Cartesian Sonata ("The finest prose stylist in America"-- The Washington Post ). It begins with "In Camera," the first of the two novellas, and tells the story, which grows darker and dustier by the speck, of a Mr. Gab (who doesn't have the gift) and his photography shop (in a part of town so drab even robbers wouldn't visit), a shop stuffed with gray-white, gray-bleach photographs, each in its own cellophane sheet, loosely side-filed in cardboard boxes, tag attached . . . an inner sanctum where little happens beyond the fulsome, deep reverence for Mr. Gab's images and vast collection, a homemade museum in the midst of the outer maelstrom . . . until a Mr. Stu (as in u-stew-pid) enters the shop, inspecting the extraordinary collection, and Mr. Gab's treasure-filled, dust-laden, meticulously contained universe begins to implode . . . In the story "Don't Even Try, Sam," the upright piano from the 1942 Warner Bros. classic Casablanca is interviewed ("I know why you want to talk to me," the piano says. "It's because everybody else is dead. Stars go out. Directors die. Companies fold. But some of the props get preserved. I've seen my friend the Vichy water bottle in the storeroom as wrapped up as the Maltese Falcon. We'd fetch a price now") . . . In another story, "Charity," a young lawyer, whose business it is to keep hospital equipment honestly produced, offers a simple gift and is brought to the ambiguous heart of charity itself. In "Soliloquy for a Chair," a folding chair does just that--talks in a barbershop that is ultimately bombed . . . and in "The Toy Chest," Disneylike creatures take on human roles and concerns and live in an atmosphere of a child's imagination. An enchanting Gassian journey; a glorious fantasia; a virtuoso delight.
LC Classification NumberPS3557.A845E94 2015
