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Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
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CARTESIAN SONATA - run Gass' disjointed po-mo gauntlet then afterwards settle into an exotic, disturbing, hyper sensitive fantasy of wonder. Brilliant.
BED AND BREAKFAST - loneliness, sentimentality with a little sexy surprise at the end. LOL.
EMMA ENTERS A SENTENCE OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S - a masterwork of prose and suffocation. Bleak, gothic farm house family. If you liked the family in The Tunnel check this one out; it's like Gass perfected his art in this subtle & silent hellscape.
"Her father found out that, though Emma attended the garden, she didn't pull weeds or kill bugs. So he removed her from that duty and made her hold the guts he pulled from the plucked chickens."
"Her mother's face was closed as a nut, but you might say the same of Emma's too, who learned, as her mother doubtless had, to conceal her feelings for so long she forgot she had any."
"...the tree groaned and crashed with a noise of much paper being angrily wadded, as if God were crumpling the Contract. A cloud stood above the tree like the suggestion of a shroud to mark the spot and evidence the deed."
THE MASTER OF SECRET REVENGES - "...Luther knew he would continue to stumble about, injured by everybody, until he'd taken his revenge, for revenge was necessary in the absence of justice, and in distasteful equalitarian societies where the quiet merits of the meek were given but fat lip service. The lady with the scales wore bandaged eyes."
This should be everyone's introduction to Gass; it's four "novellas" are representative of his talent and sensibilities. Masterwork.
BED AND BREAKFAST - loneliness, sentimentality with a little sexy surprise at the end. LOL.
EMMA ENTERS A SENTENCE OF ELIZABETH BISHOP'S - a masterwork of prose and suffocation. Bleak, gothic farm house family. If you liked the family in The Tunnel check this one out; it's like Gass perfected his art in this subtle & silent hellscape.
"Her father found out that, though Emma attended the garden, she didn't pull weeds or kill bugs. So he removed her from that duty and made her hold the guts he pulled from the plucked chickens."
"Her mother's face was closed as a nut, but you might say the same of Emma's too, who learned, as her mother doubtless had, to conceal her feelings for so long she forgot she had any."
"...the tree groaned and crashed with a noise of much paper being angrily wadded, as if God were crumpling the Contract. A cloud stood above the tree like the suggestion of a shroud to mark the spot and evidence the deed."
THE MASTER OF SECRET REVENGES - "...Luther knew he would continue to stumble about, injured by everybody, until he'd taken his revenge, for revenge was necessary in the absence of justice, and in distasteful equalitarian societies where the quiet merits of the meek were given but fat lip service. The lady with the scales wore bandaged eyes."
This should be everyone's introduction to Gass; it's four "novellas" are representative of his talent and sensibilities. Masterwork.
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