Finding a Form: Essays (American Literature Series) - Softcover

Gass, William H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564785297 ISBN 13: 9781564785299

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

"No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post

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Review:

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.

No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading.--Washington Post

About the Author:

William H. Gass—essayist, novelist, literary critic—was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He has been the recipient of the first PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the Art of the Essay, three National Book Critic Circle Awards for Criticism, a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Award for Fiction and the Medal of Merit for Fiction from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. He lives in St. Louis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564785297
• ISBN 13: 9781564785299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368