Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife [Paperback]

William H Gass (Author)

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Paperback: 1 pages
Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS (Feb 23 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1564782123
ISBN-13: 978-1564782120
Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 15.4 x 0.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 113 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #779,870 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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" which, in the years since its first appearance in 1968 as a supplement to TriQuarterly, has attained the status of a postmodernist classic.Like Laurence Sterne and Lewis Carroll before him, Gass uses a variety of visual devices: photographs, comic-strip balloons, different typefaces, parallel story lines (sometimes three or four to the page), even coffee stains. As Larry McCaffery has pointed out, "the lonesome lady of the book's title, who is gradually revealed to be lady language herself, creates an elaborate series of devices which she hopes will draw attention to her slighted charms [and] force the reader to confront what she literally is: a physically exciting literary text."

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars "Saintly love. Kiss my foot. Kiss the rubber ends of canes" Huh?, Jun 25 2008

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Poetic prose like that is no surprise from Gass. But somehow every page comes with surprises, sudden shifts, silly stuff and occasionally, some
twisting tickles or cutitudenous insight (well, more like a peek now and then when you don't expect it.

"(Go to a movie.) Forward and back, in and out, up and down," we skip a

b O u
T. And like that, there: in fancy frenetics.

At worst, silly.

At best, an amusing divertissement,
but only for hard-core Gass fans.

8 of 20 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars This book changed the way I look at a coffee table., Feb 3 1997

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This review is from: Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (Paperback)

This book changed the way I look at a coffee table. It changed the way I look at fonts. It must be read, browsed and left out for others to browse. Leave it in the bathroom and see what happens. You will learn much about your guests as they sit on the pot

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