In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Cultural studies and how to raise living

and how to raise living standards for all

‘Andy Friend deftly carries the reader into a much-peopled narrative

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author of the global phenomenon The Secret and the New York Times Bestseller The Greatest Secret

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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Cultural studies and how to raise livingFirst published in 1968, 'In the Heart of the Heart of the Country' established William Gass as one of America's 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 America's heartland, with its punishing extremes of heat and cold, its endless