Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife

novella by Gass

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In William H. Gass
His novella Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife (1968)—a woman’s reflections on her life and on language—makes use of typographical and other visual devices. Gass’s lush, acrobatic style has been criticized by some as being achieved at the expense of characterization, plot, and such conventions as punctuation.
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