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"Nearly all of the essays in this collection of occasional pieces are a pleasure to read and some...are works of beauty....The unlikely combination of criticism, philosophy and metaphorical inventiveness has resulted in a kind of poetry....In a variety of ways--by means of startling metaphor and philosophical cajolery--[Mr. Gass] does the same thing in each essay: he calls our attention to art. It sounds like a simple enough achievement until we remember how few critics do it or, as Gass suggests, how many seem bent upon doing the contrary."

Robert Kiely, New York Times Book Review, 02/21/1971

"For anyone who writes fiction or writes about it, or reads fiction for the solacing sense of potential reality it can provide, Gass' book is the most important and bracing theoretical study I know of. Besides being a miraculously gifted writer he is that rare thing among creators, a trained philosopher. No one I can name has his persuasive power."

Geoffrey Wolff, Newsweek

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