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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Pr
Publication date
December 1, 1989
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780916583460
ISBN-10
0916583465
Dimensions
0.25 by 6 by 10 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock
Original list price
$9.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product 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. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this âessay-novellaâ which, in the years since its first appearance in 1968 as a supplement to TriQuarterly, has attained the status of a postmodernist classic. Like Laurence Sterne and Lewis Carroll before him, Gass uses a variety of visual devices: photographs, comic-strip balloons, different typefaces, parallel story lines (sometimes three or four to the page), even coffee stains. As Larry McCaffery has pointed out, âthe lonesome lady of the bookâs title, who is gradually revealed to be lady language herself, creates an elaborate series of devices which she hopes will draw attention to her slighted charms [and] force the reader to confront what she literally is: a physically exciting literary text.â
Editions
Paperback
from Dalkey Archive Pr (March 1, 1999); titled "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
9781564782120 | details & prices | 6.25 × 10.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $13.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Dalkey Archive Pr (December 1, 1989); titled "Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
9780916583460 | details & prices | 6.00 × 10.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $9.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
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