num_pages: 240
description: IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gass’s Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyce’s Dubliners. First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," "Order of Insects," and the title story.
language: English
title: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
titlecomplete: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
genres: Classics, United States, Fiction, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Short Story Collection, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 2450
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher