In a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a man s life futile, comic, anarchic a...

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1...

'As a writer, I have only one responsibility, and that's to the language I'm using and to the thi...

From the writer the 'Washington Post' calls 'the finest prose stylist in America,' a collection o...

Reprint of the 1st ed. Published in 1971.

In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, ...

The point where an underground spring suddenly bursts to the surface is known as an eye. It is a ...

This volume provides a descriptive and informative guide to more than 100 sites of literary signi...

On Being Blue is a book about everything blue sex andsleaze and sadness, among other things and a...

'The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation.' -The New Republi...

'Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . ....

Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebratin...