Tests of Time
William H Gass
ISBN 10: 0375412573 ISBN 13: 9780375412578
Published by Alfred A. Knopf March 2002, 2002
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The renowned author of Cartesian Sonata reflects on the nature of writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion in fourteen witty essays that address the nature of narrative and its philosophical implications, the cost of political influence on writers, and the work of Gustave Flaubert, among other topics. 12,500 first printing.
About the Author: <b>William H. Gass </b>was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He is the recipient of the first PEN/Nabokov Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, a Lanan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, a Medal of Merit for Fiction, an Award for Fiction from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from both the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. He is the author also of <i>Reading Rilke, Cartesian Sonota,</i> and <i>Finding a Form.</i> He lives in St. Louis.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Tests of Time
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf March 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.