{"product_id":"on-being-blue-a-philosophical-inquiry-paperback-2","title":"On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Gass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Gorra\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Being Blue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gass writes: \u003cbr\u003eOf 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Gass\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1924) is an essayist, novelist, and literary critic. He grew up in Ohio and is a former professor of philosophy at Washington University. Among his books are six works of fiction and nine books of essays, including \u003ci\u003eTests of Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eA Temple of Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and \u003ci\u003eLife Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). New York Review Books will republish his story collection \u003ci\u003eIn the Heart of the Heart of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1968) in 2014. Gass lives with his wife, the architect Mary Gass, in St. Louis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Gorra\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. His earlier books include \u003ci\u003eAfter Empire: Scott, Naipaul, and Rushdie\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and \u003ci\u003eThe Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). He has taught at Smith College since 1985, where he is now the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8.11 x 5.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47332915544313,"sku":"9781590177181","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QWVmMi95Q3hWejhOTEwzNVlWbjNYUT09_d7f95ae8-095a-4af1-ac10-d447fbbb6f51.webp?v=1769634772","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/on-being-blue-a-philosophical-inquiry-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}