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Cartesian sonata and other novellas

Author: William H Gass
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary: Four philosophical novellas which explore our quest for meaning and the mind's ability to escape. In one, a woman loses touch with the physical world by immersing herself in poetry, in another a man discovers history in the bric-a-brac of a motel room.
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William H Gass
ISBN: 0375401687 : 9780375401688 0465026206 9780465026203
OCLC Number: 38002653
Description: 274 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Cartesian sonata -- Bed and breakfast -- Emma enters a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's -- The master of secret revenges.
Responsibility: by William H. Gass.
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Four philosophical novellas which explore our quest for meaning and the mind's ability to escape. In one, a woman loses touch with the physical world by immersing herself in poetry, in another a man discovers history in the bric-a-brac of a motel room.

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