Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

by Gass, William H.
ISBN: 9781564782120
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Overview

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. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this "essay-novella" that has attained the status of a postmodernist classic. Originally published by Knopf in 1971, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1989, now available again.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Gass, William H.
  • ISBN: 9781564782120
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.92 x 0.17
  • Number Of Pages: 64
  • Publication Year: 2014