Athena (novel)
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Athena is a 1995 novel by the Irish author John Banville, the third in a series that started with The Book of Evidence and continued with Ghosts. These three form the "Frames" trilogy, linked by the t
First edition (publ. Secker & Warburg) Cover artist George Frederic Watts, The Minotaur, 1885
William H. Gass
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William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and s
Athena (novel)
…The story is punctuated by several appraisals of paintings by fictitious artists. Reviewers compared it favourably with the writing of John Fowles, William Gass, John Hawkes and Vladimir Nabokov. Morrow is the central character and narrator of the story, which is set in Ireland. He makes several references to…
Gass at the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards
A paperback copy of William H. Gass' controversial novel The Tunnel on top of two of his collections of essays: "Habitations of the Word" and "The World Within the Word"