William H. Gass

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1966
  • Latest Book:
    October 2015
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Books in Order: 12 titles

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  • Eyes

    A dazzling new collection -- two novellas and four short stories from one of the most revered writers of our time, author of seven books of fiction, among them The Tunnel, Middle C, and Cartesian Sonata. It begins with "In Camera," the first of th...

  • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

    First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two...

  • Middle C

    Gass’s new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life -- futile, comic, anarchic -- arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and b...

  • Finding a Form

    From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today....

  • Cartesian Sonata: And Other Novellas

    From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and Finding a Form--four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represen...

  • The Tunnel

    Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive histor...

  • Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

    In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader....

  • Habitations of the Word

  • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories



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  • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Other Stories

  • Omensetter's Luck

    """The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation."" -The New Republic

    Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter''s Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle ...

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William H. Gass has published 12 books.

William H. Gass does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Eyes, was published in October 2015.

The first book by William H. Gass, Omensetter's Luck, was published in April 1966.

No. William H. Gass does not write books in series.
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