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 salesman 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 devilish young man named Luther (who might as well be called Lucifer). These stories are filled with the familiar style, brilliance, philosophy, and wit that fans of William Gass have come to expect and cherish.
- ISBN10 1564785025
- ISBN13 9781564785022
- Publish Date 1 February 2009 (first published 28 January 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292
- Language English