5 best-selling 20th century books like In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories by William H. Gass

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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

By: William H. Gass

4.07

Format: 242 pages,

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1. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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2. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

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3. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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  • fiction
  • american
  • 20th century
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4. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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  • american
  • fiction
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5. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

By: William H. Gass

4.07

Format: 242 pages,

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  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • short stories
  • 20th century
  • fiction
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6. The Melancholy of Resistance

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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7. V.

By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • american
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8. Satantango

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

4.14

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"

-George Szirtes, Satantango

"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"

-George Szirtes, Satantango

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9. The Sot-Weed Factor

By: John Barth

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factorhas acquired… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
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10. Agapē Agape

By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more

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  • american
  • the united states of america
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  • fiction

11. Against the Day

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more

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12. JR

By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more

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13. Light in August

By: William Faulkner

3.89

Format: 704 pages,

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more

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14. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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15. Carpenter's Gothic

By: William Gaddis

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more

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16. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Samuel Beckett

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Mol… read more

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17. Lost in the Funhouse

By: John Barth

4.27

Format: 197 pages,

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more

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18. Sixty Stories

By: Donald Barthelme

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our t… read more

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19. Vineland

By: Thomas Pynchon

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more

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20. The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

By: Robert Coover

3.85

Format: 208 pages,

A satirical fable with a rootless and helpless accountant as the protagonist. Alone in his apartmen… read more

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21. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

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  • fiction
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

11 best-selling fiction books like In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories by William H. Gass

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Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Mao II

Don DeLillo

4.31

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Wittgenstein's Mistress

David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

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William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

4.17

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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

William H. Gass

4.07

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2.50

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