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William H. Gass

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William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which 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. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.

Books

The Tunnel
The Tunnel
William H. Gass
On Being Blue
On Being Blue
William H. Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
William H. Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
William H. Gass
Middle C
Middle C
William H. Gass
Finding a Form
Finding a Form
William H. Gass
The Recognitions
The Recognitions
William Gaddis, William H. Gass
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
William H. Gass
The William H. Gass Reader
The William H. Gass Reader
William H. Gass
The World Within The Word Essays
The World Within The Word Essays
William H. Gass
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
William H. Gass
Fiction and the Figures of Life
Fiction and the Figures of Life
William H. Gass
Life Sentences
Life Sentences
William H. Gass
A Temple of Texts
A Temple of Texts
William H. Gass
A Temple of Texts
A Temple of Texts
William H. Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
William H. Gass
Reading Rilke
Reading Rilke
William H. Gass
Prigionieri del paradiso
Prigionieri del paradiso
William H. Gass
Tests of Time
Tests of Time
William H. Gass
A temple of texts
A temple of texts
William H. Gass

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