Middle CBy: William H. Gass Series: Vintage International In a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a mans lifefutile, comic, anarchicarranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms, and tones, with music as both theme and structure. It begins in Graz, Austria, in 1938, when Joseph Skizzens father pretends to be Jewish and emigrates to avoid the Nazis. In London with his wife and children for the duration of the war, he