William Gass Masterpiece Is Re-Issued

So happy to see that one of my favorite books from college years — William Gass’s story collection, “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” — is being re-issued. ‘First published in 1968, the book established Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America’s heartland, with its punishing extremes of heat and cold, its endless spaces and claustrophobic households, its hidden and baffled desires, its lurking threat of violence.’

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