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Synopsis
From the writer the Washington Post calls ”the finest prose stylist in America,” a collection of masterly short fiction—his first in over 30 years.
David L. Ulin
Gass's new book, Cartesian Sonata, does little to dispel the impression of his fiction as an intellectual conceit. . . all four novellas remain largely static, the lliterary equivalent of geometric proofs. . . what [it] fails to encompass is the notion that fiction is not an intellectual discipline but an emotional one, a medium where storytelling and character, even in the most abstract sense, are paramount. -- Bookforum