List Price: $13.95Now Price: $5.49Authors: William H. GassPublication date: 1998-03
Five stories, only one particularly memorable
2004-06-05
If I were to recommend any of the stories from this book, it would be the first one, "The Pederson Kid." It is the only one of the five that follows a consistent and well-developed story line, which is about several members of a family who endeavor to rescue a neighboring family during a horrendous blizzard. It is colorfully written and loaded with lots of snow related imagery. In the other stories Mr. Gass largely substitutes atmosphere for plot, to wit a housewife who examines in descriptive detail the myriad insects she has collected. Perhaps that is the author's point: being a member of the post-modernist school of writing, Mr. Gass tries to create a certain kind of poetry at the expense of plot and character development, to the extent there is such in short stories. On that level his imagery does attain a certain kind of beauty, but after a while it was not enough to sustain my interest in these stories.
Makes Me Think Of
2003-01-25
William Gass. No one else but William Gass.
Please Keep Early Gass in Print, Vote 2
2000-01-18
Early William H. Gass is essential. This fairly straightforward book is early Gass. Gass after Omensetter is a very personal taste. Fame, even the tiny minor academic variety, infects human beings oddly. Gass only had a few stories to tell. This book matters. Please keep the great early Gass alive/available & do not worry much about the later still quite interesting but arrogant blatting.
why has this gone out of print
1999-11-09
It seems impossible that a collection of stories as ground breaking as these could disappear from the bookshelves, but here it is. I came on to find out about ordering a copy but found the publisher was out! Then let me say, having read it a few times already that while In the Heart of the Heart of the Country gets and deserves much praise in this collection, The Pederson Kid is MASTERFul in its language, pacing and style. Order of Insects also is rumination as short story. I am in love with this book and like your true love, it will always be there.
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