In brief, Gass engenders brand-new abrupt vulnerabilities. And I am in retirement from love.I am keeping count, and as I write this page, it is eleven days since I have seen the sun.The church has a steeple like the hat of a witch, and five birds, all doves, perch in its gutters.For all those not in love there’s law: to rule…to regulate…to rectify.Things have changed since then, but in none of the respects mentioned.there’s simply no way of knowing how lonely and empty he is or whether he’s as vacant and barren and loveless as the rest of us are—here in the heart of the country.rural slums, and this community could easily become oneThese houses are now dying like the bereaved who inhabit them; they are slowly losing their senses—deafness, blindness, forgetfulness, mumbling, an insecure gait, an uncontrollable trembling has overcome them.I am not here; I’ve passed the glass, passed second-story spaces, flown by branches, brilliant berries, to the ground, grass high in seed and leafage every season; and it is the same as when I passed above you in my aged, ardent body; it’s, in short, a kind of love; and I am learning to restore myself, my house, my body, by paying court to gardens, cats, and running water, and with neighbors keeping company.We do not converse. They are the perfect foil for the nightmare leaps of his language. The verities grow bizarre. The main characters of this short stories, fiction story are , . The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 206 pages and is available in Paperback format.
We read about the becalmed Midwest, about farmers mired in their dailiness, and realize too late that we’ve been exposed to a deadly poetry. There’s Westbrook’s, with the geraniums, Horsefall’s, Mott’s. The main characters of this short stories, fiction story are , .
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“In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” is a short story that comes from a collection, published in 1968, of the same name. You are about to relax in those hick locales, even to feel comfortably bored, when the ambush of metaphors starts together with the shock of jagged elisions. First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. I wanted to be famous.” I also see formatting problems, words that should be italicized not capitalized, “blond” where “blonde” is in the original, etc.In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other StoriesDown the back streets the asphalt crumbles into gravel. Are you an author?
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H Gass review – timeless short stories A mindbending collection reminiscent of Edward Hopper canvases …