In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories SPO057000 ISBN13: 9781490793078

ISBN13: 9781490793078

"Give all that death to me" she says

tactical or strategic

With haunting clarity

"Burt was the artist of Laurel Canyon

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories SPO057000 ISBN13: 9781490793078First 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. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America's heartland, with its punishing extremes of heat and cold, its endless