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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories dark horse “The most interesting ideas areFirst published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of Americas finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of Americas heartland, with its punishing extremes of heat and cold, its endless spaces