"The Doomed in Their Sinking" - Typescript Draft

Item

Gass, William H., “"The Doomed in Their Sinking" - Typescript Draft”, The New York Review of Books, circa May 1972, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/14131

Title
"The Doomed in Their Sinking" - Typescript Draft
Description
First five pages of a typescript draft of an essay written by Gass reviewing two books: The Savage God by A. Alvarez and Suicide by Jacques Choron, published in the May 18, 1972 issue of The New York Review of Books, and collected in The World Within the Word.
Subject
Gass, William H., 1924---Reviews written.
Creator
Gass, William H.
Source
William H. Gass Papers
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Date
circa May 1972
Relation
The New York Review of Books
Format
Text
JPEG files
600 ppi
Language
English
Type
Manuscript
Identifier
MSS051_II-2_The_Savage_God_01.jpg
MSS051_II-2_The_Savage_God_02.jpg
MSS051_II-2_The_Savage_God_03.jpg
MSS051_II-2_The_Savage_God_04.jpg
MSS051_II-2_The_Savage_God_05.jpg
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Gass, William H., “"The Doomed in Their Sinking" - Typescript Draft”, The New York Review of Books, circa May 1972, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/14131