{"product_id":"middle-c-william-h-gass-9780804168786","title":"Middle C","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a man's life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms, and tones, with music as both theme and structure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt begins in Graz, Austria, in 1938, when Joseph Skizzen's father pretends to be Jewish and emigrates to avoid the Nazis. In London with his wife and children for the duration of the war, he mysteriously disappears and the rest of the family relocates to a small town in Ohio. Here Joseph Skizzen grows up and leads a resolutely ordinary life, but one that is built on a scaffold of forgery and deceit. Outwardly he is a professor of music at a mediocre college; secretly he is the earnestly obsessive curator of a private Inhumanity Museum, meant to contain the guilt of centuries of atrocities. \u003ci\u003eMiddle C\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his journey--a story that is also an investigation into the nature of identity and the ways in which each of us is several selves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William H. Gass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804168784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804168786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.19w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2013 pg. 82","brand":"William H. Gass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947211358463,"sku":"9780804168786","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d1337a61-b2a3-4a5d-bc4d-c94f2c330f6e.jpg?v=1681517384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/middle-c-william-h-gass-9780804168786","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}