On Being Blue [Audiobook] download free by William H. Gass
- Listen audiobook: On Being Blue
- Author: William H. Gass
- Release date: 2014/4/25
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781590177181
- Rating: 8.71 of 10
- Votes: 241
- Review by: Junko Lanham
- Review rating: 10 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 1H22M46S in 256 kbps (22.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPEG-4 SLS, FLAC, MPEG4, WMA, MP3 (compression RAR, CPIO, ALZ, DEB, LHA, ZIP, CBC)
- Total pages original book: 112
- Includes a PDF summary of 13 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 9M36S (2.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy: Aesthetics, Popular Philosophy, Literary Studies: General, Philosophy, Literary Essays
- Download servers: BitShare, Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, MegaCloud, FreakShare, Dropbox, Rapidgator.net, Torrent. Compressed in RAR, CPIO, ALZ, DEB, LHA, ZIP, CBC
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.98 USD
- Dimensions: 127x203x9mm
- Weight: 140g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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