Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

Name: Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Author: William H. Gass

by William H. Gass

Experimental novella playfully deconstructing marriage and literary form

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William H. Gass

William H. Gass was a philosopher-novelist whose Omensetter's Luck and the novella In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established him as the most philosophically sophisticated prose stylist of his American generation. His essays on fiction were equally important.

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Omensetter's LuckSparse modernist novel of spiritual alienation and redemption in Midwest
In the Heart of the Heart of the CountryLyrical meditation on small-town American life and internal consciousness
The TunnelMonumental novel exploring history, consciousness, and phenomenology through prose
Cartesian SonataStory collection of philosophical fragments and experimental pieces