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Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by William H. Gass and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru  · Willie Master's Lonesome Wife () by William H. Gass, first published as TriQuarterly Supplement Number Two, is an innovative mini-novel which features black and white photographs of a nude model, who resembles a modern Madame Bovary or Molly Bloom in a text written as an interior monologue, a narrative technique that reveals the female perspective, as Babs considers the concept . Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife is a thin book, though one of considerable ambition. The dissatisfied Babs Masters (the lonesome wife) challenges the reader, enticing him or her with a Author: William Gass.

Thirty years after William H. Gass published his photo-embedded novella Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (which I wrote about recently), he published another novella with photographs. I first read Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's in Conjunctions issue 30 (), where the story contains eight photographs by Michael Eastman. willie masters' lonesome wife By William Gass. eviewing a novella of so few pages affords the luxury (note the undertone, please) of reread as well as read--that reread without which, as Roland Barthes points out, no critical act is ever possible. William H. Gass, Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife. The exhibition Lonesome Wife takes its title from 'Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife', a book by the experimental American novelist William H. Gass. The book is narrated through the voice of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title.

Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife: Dalkey Archive Press publicity page Excerpts. Reviews: 1streading's Blog; Innovative Fiction Magazine; The New York Times Book Review; shigekuni; Weekly Alibi (scroll down for review) William H. Gass: William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence - extensive exhibit site Interview in Bomb () Interview in The. Along with early typescript and manuscript drafts of Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, the William H. Gass Papers contain a reading version typescript that Gass used at readings. The text was typed in multiple colors, providing clues into the different speakers or concepts Gass was conveying. Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife. by. William H. Gass. · Rating details · ratings · 46 reviews. 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 "essay-novella.