Fiction. This is a novel arranged around an incident of sexual intercourse between Babs, the lonesome wife of the title, and her lover Gelvin. Using illustrations, unconventional typography and printing methods, and extending the metaphor of sexual intercourse as a construct of the novel, Gass draws the reader's attention to the very words that make up the novel and to the way we read novels conventionally.
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