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The point where an underground spring suddenly bursts to the surface is known as an eye. It is a place of mystery, where dry ground becomes soaked with life-giving water, and nature gives us a glimpse of all that happens out of the realm of human vision. So begins William Gass's latest collection, with these evocative lines from Jan DeBlieu. What follows are six extraordinary works of fiction: stories and novellas that capture these moments of...

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From the writer the "Washington Post" calls "the finest prose stylist in America, " a collection of masterly short fiction--his first in over 30 years.

No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post

From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and A Temple of Texts, come four interrelated novellas that explore good and evil, action and thought, redemption and possession. The reader will encounter here a traveling saleseman who gets lost in the kitschy clutter of a small town in Illinois, a young woman in rural Iowa who loses touch with the outside world and turns to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop as anchor, and the coming-of-age story of a...

No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating the sublime and rapturous excitement of reading." Washington Post