Finding a Form
William H. Gass
(Author)
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Description
"No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date
August 25, 2009
Pages
354
Dimensions
5.81 X 8.38 X 1.04 inches | 1.04 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781564785299
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About the Author
William H. Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the author of seven works of fiction, nine books of essays, and a book of conversations. Gass was a professor of philosophy at Washington University. For most of his life he lived in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife, the architect Mary Gass. William Gass died in 2017.
Reviews
In his first gathering of essays in several years, novelist and critic Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page . . . Gass's deeply felt essays . . . are quotable, flecked with fertile insights and a pleasure to read.
William H. Gass is embattled . . . and in Finding a Form he confronts the conundrum of the writer that he has faced in previous essays: the word is sacred. Though there are no longer sacred texts, 'writing puts the writer in illusory command of the world, empowers someone otherwise powerless, but with a power no more pointed than a pencil' . . . Against the odds, William Gass, a tortured man in the attic, has empowered himself to write scripture in an unredemptive time.
William H. Gass is embattled . . . and in Finding a Form he confronts the conundrum of the writer that he has faced in previous essays: the word is sacred. Though there are no longer sacred texts, 'writing puts the writer in illusory command of the world, empowers someone otherwise powerless, but with a power no more pointed than a pencil' . . . Against the odds, William Gass, a tortured man in the attic, has empowered himself to write scripture in an unredemptive time.
No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading.--Washington Post
