Annal:1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

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Results of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 1985. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

1985 NBCC–Criticism winner
Score: 10.35

Author William H. Gass analyzes as though under a microscope the many and varied ways writers carpenter structures with words to house language forms. “Using Freudian concepts, he compares the art of writing to the art of becoming civilized: writing parallels the transformation of raw instinct into shared expression.…Gass writes with impassioned concern”.—Publishers Weekly.

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