
"A dazzling compendium of fiction and literary essays...a banquet...joyous...superb." --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal. From the author of The Tunnel. This definitive collection brings together the finest fiction and essays of William Gass, one of...

Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected in one volume. There are essays on Plato, Hobbes, James,...