Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife

"[Here is] a text that regales the eye with combinations of italics and bold face, footnotes and headnotes, asterisks and treble clefs, placards that tend to dominate the page and parabolical tails of words that go wagging off it...and interleaved shots of nudes that sometimes have the text itself elbowed into a corner as if in parody of Life's ousting Art. All in all, it's a defiant, ingeniously staged typographical concerto for eye and berserk compositor, in the course of which Gass keeps the mind at full stretch as he feeds it information from all quarters of the page and sustains as many as three parallel streams of narrative all competing for simultaneous attention."Gass, William H. is the author of 'Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife', published 1999 under ISBN 9781564782120 and ISBN 1564782123.