Cartesian Sonata NO UK RIGHTS (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) (American Literature Series) - Softcover

Gass; William H.

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9781564785022: Cartesian Sonata NO UK RIGHTS (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) (American Literature Series)

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ISBN 10: 1564785025 ISBN 13: 9781564785022

Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS, 2009

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"Invigorating and extremely intelligent."

"The finest prose stylist in America." -- Steven Moore

"All in all, Gass is in peak form in this heady and provocative volume."

"In Cartesian Sonata, Gass once again proves he is one of the few American writers who pens sentences readers can dance in." -- Bill Marx

"Gass serves up an enticing mix of high-flown lyricism, sketchy narrative and momentary brillance in his playful latest fiction....Gass is an engrossing character-portraitist."

Four virtuoso performances, playfully juggling exuberant prose with sly postmodern speculations on the nature of desire, fiction, and the soul.' -Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award.

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