| Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife Available Again Edition Contributor(s): Gass, William H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564782123 ISBN-13: 9781564782120 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89011724 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.17" H x 6.08" W x 9.92" (0.33 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this "essay-novella" that has attained the status of a postmodernist classic. Originally published by Knopf in 1971, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1989, now available again. |