Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.  It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henr More »