· Photo by Jakub Szestowicki. William Gass is a master of the English language. His prose is smooth and muscular: at once honey dripping off a hot tin roof, and a hammer encased in velvet. His greatest achievement in Eyes: Novellas and Stories is in the language. That said, his plots–vignettes may be the better word–are surreal and inventive. · The publication of Gass’s latest collection, Eyes: Novellas and Stories, provides an opportunity for a correction. Taken together, these stories offer a sample of the methodologies and preoccupations that have defined Gass’s fiction, and the book could serve as a primer on the virtuosity of his language, his careful layering of image, idea and action, his poignant portraits of minds suffering . Eyes; Novellas and Stories is a book composed of 6 short works of descriptive fiction (for lack of a better word). It offers unusual perspectives, though they tend to be dark (in the sense of overcast more than malicious). My favorite among them was Don't Even Try Sam, a piece taken from the perspective of the piano in Casablanca/5(25).
Enter the sublime, upside down inside out world of William H Gass in this case where the Eyes have it every which way, including up in a dazzling new collection of novellas and stories six in all from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of sixteen books, among them, the universally acclaimed The Tunnel An extraordinary achievement MicEnter the sublime, upside down inside out. Eyes: Novellas and Stories - William H. Gass Jonathan W. Almost fifty years after publishing the landmark collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, William H. Gass returns to short fiction with Eyes (Knopf, $26), his follow-up to Middle C, recent recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' William Dean Howells Medal for. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Eyes: Novellas and Stories by William Gass (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
Enter the sublime, upside-down / inside-out world of William H. Gass in this case where the Eyes have it every which way, including up in a dazzling new collection of novellas and stories (six in all) from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of sixteen books, among them, the universally acclaimed The Tunnel ("An extraordinary achievement"--Michael Dirda, The. An “eye,” the epigraph to Gass’s (Middle C) new story collection informs us, is “the point. Four of the six pieces in Eyes: Novellas and Stories were originally published in Conjunctions, a journal of experimentalist writing, and readers familiar with the work of William H. Gass will find that this collection exhibits some of his trademarks: off-kilter psychological complexity, narrative-eschewing storytelling, and (in “The Toy Chest”) a bit of play with typography. A new reader may be tempted to retread the opening of one of these complex pieces to make connections, but.
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