Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts
- ISBN-10
- 0307595846
- ISBN-13
- 9780307595843
- Series
- Life Sentences
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
- Author
- William H. Gass
Description
A new collection of essays by the author of Finding a Form explores themes of writing, form and thought while considering the author's life-long attachment to books, in a volume that considers the works of such favorites as Kafka, Nietzsche and Henry James.
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- 2012-11-01
- 700 pages
- Paperback
- Medallion Media Group
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