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.
- ISBN10 1564782123
- ISBN13 9781564782120
- Publish Date 22 May 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
- Edition Available Again ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English