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62 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780394472454
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Publication date: 28 January 1971
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In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappoin...
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62 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780394472454
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Publication date: 28 January 1971
Description
In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappoin...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings