In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass s characteristic and wholly atypical verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. Words populate these stories, as squirming, regal, and unexpected as the roaches, boys, icicles, neighbors, neuroses, and properties they describe. No matter how strange or estranged the human consciousness directing each symphony of words, his or her fear, delight, and disgust is uncanny and familiar.

Author:  Ashley Audrain

Publisher: Penguin

Released Date: 2022

ISBN: 9781590177648