On Being Blue by William H Gass

On Being Blue by William H Gass

On Being Blue is a book about everything blue--sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things--and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.

Gass writes:
Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.

Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota, and is an essayist, novelist, and literary critic. Life Sentences, A Temple of Texts, and Tests of Time are among his six works of fiction and nine collections of essays. Gass is a former philosophy professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He resides in St. Louis with his architect wife, Mary Gass.

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ISBN 13	9781590177181
ISBN 10	1590177185
Title	On Being Blue
Author	William H Gass
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2014-03-11
Number of pages	112
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